Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TANSLEY

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township-chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Crich Tn/AP/CP       Tansley CP/Tn       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Tansley

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