Tansley, Derbyshire Family History Guide

Tansley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1840 from Crich Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, U. Free Methodists and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TANSLEY, a township-chapelry in Crich parish, Derby; 1½ mile E of Matlock r. station. It has a post-office under Matlock-Bath.

Acres, 1,150. Real property, £1,812. Pop., 622. Houses, 132. The property is much subdivided. There are manufactories of small wares and candle-wicks.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £204. Patron, the Vicar of Crich. The church was built in 1840.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and U. free Methodists, and a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Bakewell
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Ashover
  • Poor Law Union: Bakewell
  • Hundred: Wirksworth
  • Province: Canterbury