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Updated 1st November 2019

Tansley's war memorials in Holy Trinity Church (Click photos to enlarge them)

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."
[4th verse of the poem "For The Fallen" by Laurence Binyon].

"When you go home, tell them of us and say
For their tomorrow, we gave our today."
[John Maxwell Edmonds - Epitaph in the War Cemetery in Kohima which commemorates the fallen of the Battle of Kohima in April 1944.]

TANSLEY HAS A DEFIBRILLATOR LOCATED OUTSIDE THE GATE INN, THE KNOLL, DE4 5FN

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SEE OUR PEAK DISTRICT PHOTO OF THE MONTH AND SLIDESHOW OF 11 PREVIOUS MONTHS BELOW

Tansley is in Derbyshire , 1.5 miles east of Matlock, in the south-east of the Peak District,
just outside the Peak District National Park in the centre of England.

Tansley is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Tanslege. Tan means a branch of a valley. Lega/leah means a wood/glade. So Tansley is the wooded glade in the branch of a valley. [ack. Denys Gaskell]

The village has a village green with a play area, a fete/football field, a primary school, a Village Hall and a Community Hall, Anglican and Methodist churches, lots of historic buildings, two old cotton manufacturing mills and mill ponds, two pubs (The Gate Inn and The Tavern), a Sri Lankan restaurant (Colombo - once The Royal Oak pub), two garden centres nearby and a small industrial area. It is adjacent to the water-mill heritage site of Lumsdale. The village's population is slightly under 1200. This is likely to increase by 25% when 75 or more new homes are built under current, largely unwelcome, development plans. Tansley is served by an infrequent (2 hourly) but useful bus service (150) linking it to Matlock to the west and east to Wessington, Alfreton and Clay Cross.

Nearby Matlock has good bus links to places throughout the Peak District, including Ashbourne, Ashford-in-the-Water, Ashover, Bakewell, Baslow, Birchover (for Stanton Moor), Bonsall, Buxton, Carsington Water, Chatsworth, Crich, Cromford, Elton, Haddon Hall, Holloway, Lea (for Lea Gardens), Rowsley, Youlgrave, Wensley, Winster and Wirksworth and to the cities of Derby, Chesterfield, Sheffield and, via connection at Buxton, to Stockport and Manchester. It also has a regular train service to Derby and Nottingham and a four mile heritage steam railway.

Slide show of the last eleven 'photo of the month' pictures (latest first) (Click buttons to play/pause)

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This web site was created originally by Denys Gaskell who is webmaster of
Tansley's Holy Trinity Church web site.