Tansley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Tansley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Hamston in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Hamston

• Alsop [-en-le-Dale]
• Ashbourne
• Atlow
• Ballidon
• Bonsall
• Bradbourne
• Brassington
• Broadlowash
• Callow
• Carsington
• Cowley
• Cromford
• Elton
• Hanson [Grange]

The Meaning of the Name

The name Tansley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Tansley.

Listed Buildings Near Tansley

Historic England records 10 listed buildings within about a mile of Tansley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

• Knoll House - 0.8 km

Grade II

• Ivy House - 0.03 km
• Heathy Lea House - 0.22 km
• Tavern At Tansley - 0.25 km
• South View - 0.35 km
• The Grove and the Beeches - 0.36 km
• Brook House - 0.38 km
• Scholes Mill - 0.89 km
• Barn to East of Yew Tree Farm Farmhouse - 1.19 km
• Yew Tree Farm Farmhouse - 1.21 km

Tansley Today

Today Tansley lies within the administrative area of Derbyshire Dales, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,177 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Tansley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Lea - 2.2 km SE
• Shuckstone - 2.8 km SE
• Matlock - 3.2 km W
• Matlock Bridge? - 3.2 km W
• Farley - 3.6 km NW
• Cromford - 4.2 km SW