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Tansley

Tansley is a village and civil parish on the southern edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, two miles east of Matlock.

Tansley
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The place

Tansley is a village and civil parish on the southern edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, two miles east of Matlock.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tansley

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Derwent Valley Mills

    Derwent Valley Mills is a World Heritage Site along the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England, designated in December 2001. It is administered by the Derwent Valley Mills Partnership.

    3.7 km · World Heritage Site, where water-powered cotton-spinning mills were first built in the UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Riber Castle

    Riber Castle is a 19th-century Grade II listed country house in the hamlet of Riber on a hill overlooking Matlock, Derbyshire. It is built of gritstone from a local quarry which was pulled up the 200-metre hill by a series of pulleys.

    1.8 km · building in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Gulliver's Kingdom Resort

    Gulliver's Kingdom is a theme park aimed at children aged 3-13 in the Derbyshire village of Matlock Bath, England. The park was founded in 1978 by Ray and Hilary Phillips as a model village, before later expanding to include a small train and some second hand rides.

    3.5 km · Children's theme park resort in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints’ Church, Matlock Bank is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Matlock, Derbyshire.

    2.8 km · church building in Matlock Town, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Willersley Castle

    Willersley Castle is a late 18th-century country mansion above the River Derwent at Cromford, Derbyshire, outside Peak District National Park. The castle has been a Grade II* listed building since April 2000.

    3.6 km · house in Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church, Cromford

    St Mary's Church, Cromford, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Cromford, Derbyshire.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed church in Cromford, Derbyshire Dales, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Christ Church, Holloway

    Christ Church, Holloway is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Holloway, Derbyshire.

    2.6 km · church in Holloway, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Peak District Mining Museum

    The Peak District Lead Mining Museum is located at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. The Peak District Mining Museum is operated as charity by the Peak District Mines Historical Society.

    3.4 km · mining museum in Matlock Bath, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Great Masson Cavern

    Great Masson Cavern is one of two caves at the Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. The other is Great Rutland Cavern.

    3.3 km · cave in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Great Rutland Cavern

    Great Rutland Cavern is one of two caves at the Heights of Abraham, Matlock, Derbyshire, England. The other is Great Masson Cavern.

    3.3 km · cave in Derbyshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Tansley

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 77 km
Stations
Cromford railway station, 3 km · Matlock Bath railway station, 2.9 km · Matlock railway station, 2.8 km · Matlock Riverside railway station, 3.4 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Tansley
    62 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Tansley
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Tansley
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tansley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tansley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inRailway stations at for the town or (1.5 miles S) for the scenic Derwent gorge area, the Heights of Abraham attraction, caves and cable car service.

From Wikivoyage: Matlock, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    272 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    394 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    420 km

If you know how people move in Tansley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tansley

Tansley is 28 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Matlocktown in Derbyshire, England2.3 km
  • Cromfordvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England4 km
  • Matlock Bathvillage and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England3.8 km
  • Dethick, Lea and Hollowaycivil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Milltownvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hollowayvillage in Derbyshire, England, UK3.2 km