TANSLEY, Derbyshire

Bibliography

• TAYLOR, Keith - Tansley Remembered. Ashridge Press/Country Books. ISBN 1-901214-43-5.

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Census

• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• A district church was built here in 1839 and opened for services in 1840.
  
  
• The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
  
  
• The church seats 300.
  
  
• The church was enlarged in 1870.
  

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Church Records

• We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
  
  
• A useful website is the Burial Registers Index 1840 - 2002.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bakewell.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built in the village in 1829, replacing an older, smaller chapel built in 1811.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Methodist church on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Matlock sub-district of the Bakewell Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"TANSLEY, a hamlet in the parish of Crich, hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 5 miles N.E. of Crich, and 1½ mile E. of Matlock, its railway station and post town. The village contains a candlewick and small-ware manufactory. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Lichfield, value £100, in the patronage of the Vicar of Crich."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

• Stop by the Village Hall, near the Green, to check out the activity schedule.
  
  
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
  
  
• Check out the Village website for pictures and current events.
  
  
• Mike FOWKES provides a photograph of Tansley village on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Tansley entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Tansley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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Military Records

• There is a list of the names on the War Memorial on the Roll of Honour site.

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
  
  
• Tansley was incorporated from part of Crich Civil Parish as its own Civil Parish in December, 1866. It covers 1,137 acres.
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act this parish became part of the Bakewell Poolaw Union.
  

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Schools

• A National School was built and opened here in 1843. An Infant School was later added.
  

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