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 Village Hall and a Community Hall, a primary school, 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 Nepalese/Indian restaurant (Gurkha Kitchen - 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.

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