RODSLEY, a hamlet in the parish of LONGFORD, hundred of APPLETREE, county of DERBY, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from Ashbourn, containing 208 inhabitants. It is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A school is supported by a trifling bequest from Lady Coke, and some small annual subscriptions.