TANKERSLEY, (Yorkshire, W.R.) 2 m. E. of Wortley, bet. Barnesley and Sheffield, had a Ch. in the Saxon times. 'Tis a Lp.
of 800 acres, which anciently bel. to the Tankersleys; from whom it went by marriage to the Elands; from whose family it
passed to the Savils, and from them to the Talbots Es. of Shrewsbury, who sold it to the Wentworths; from whom it
descended to the late Ld. Malton, and is now the Marquis of Rockingham's. Here is a considerable park, in which, it is
said, are the finest red deer in England. In this p. was once a hermitage, which was given to the Abby of Kirkstead, but
after the Diss. came to Tho. Rokeby; from whom it came to the family of Wombwell, and was the seat of the late Smithson
Green. This T. in the civil wars was seized for the Pt. but was taken for Cha. I. by Sir Will. Cavendish, afterwards D. of
Newcastle.