English Heritage sites near Tansley Parish
WINGFIELD MANOR
5 miles from Tansley Parish
The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall.
NINE LADIES STONE CIRCLE
5 miles from Tansley Parish
A small early Bronze Age stone circle of (actually) ten stones. Believed to be nine ladies turned to stone as a penalty for dancing on Sunday.
HOB HURST'S HOUSE
6 miles from Tansley Parish
A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.
HARDWICK OLD HALL
9 miles from Tansley Parish
The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.
SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL
9 miles from Tansley Parish
The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.
ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE AND GIB HILL BARROW
10 miles from Tansley Parish
The region's most important prehistoric site, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set in high moorland. A circle of some 50 white limestone slabs within an earthen bank and ditch.
No churches found in Tansley Parish
Pubs in Tansley Parish
Bentley Brook Tap
Unit 3, Lumsdale Mill, Lumsdale Road, Lower Lumsdale, Tansley, DE4 5EX
bentleybrook.co.uk
Gate Inn
The Knoll, Tansley, DE4 5FN
(01629) 583838
thegateinntansley.co.uk/
Royal Oak
Recently re-opened, emphasis is on food. Two rooms downstairs with a further room upstairs which will accommodate larger groups.
As of July 2016 the pub has reopened as a restaurant see matlockgurkha.com
Tavern At Tansley
Nottingham Rd, Tansley, DE4 5FR
(01629) 57735
taverntansley.co.uk/