Tansley, Derbyshire

Description
Tansley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Derbyshire, 1 1/2 mile E of Matlock railway station. There is a post office under Matlock Bath; money order office, Matlock Bath; telegraph office, Matlock Green. Acreage, 1137; population, 767. There is a parish council consisting of six members. There are bleaching works and a woollen mill, and the manufacture of smallware and hosiery is carried on. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844, and extended in 1865 to include part of Matlock parish. Population, 1253. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Crich. The church was built in 1840, and restored in 1869. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels, and a Liberal club, erected in 1888.