Tansely

No major road cuts through the heart of Tansley, a village with one foot on the moors and a good base for exploring the secretive, wooded Lumsdale Valley with its half-hidden ruins, dam and waterfall. In its time the pretty Bentley Brook has worked unimaginably hard to power a long sequence of industries including a cornmill, sawmill, paintmill, smeltworks, tape mills, and textile processes from spinning to bleaching and dyeing. Tansley itself is fortunate in having a village shop/Post Office, a large village green and three pubs. Inside the church is a font from the ‘drowned’ village of Derwent (see Bamford).