1086 • The manor of Totley, (Totingelei) is described in the Domesday Survey as belonging to one of the King's Thanes. ''In Totingelei, Tolf had IV bovates of land hidable. Land for one plough. It is waste. Wood,pasturable,1mile length, and ½ mile in breadth.T.R.E.val X shillings; now, XII pence.''

1183 • Beauchief Abbey founded by Robert Fitzranulph.

1249 • The White Canons of Beauchief had a sheep grange on Totley Moor Stewberyley (Strawberry Lee). The route from the Abbey to the grange would have passed through Totley.

1536 • Dissolution of Beauchief Abbey. The land was sold to Sir Nicholas Strelley for £223. This included the Grange at Strawberry Lee.

1594 • Rowland Eyre of Hassop was smelting lead at Totley.

1621 • Deeds available for Lower Bents Farm, Penny Lane.

Totley Hall 1623 datestone

• Totley Hall built. The stone over the entrance is dated 1623. The last private owner was William Aldam Milner, a local magistrate.

1650 • By this time there were three smelting houses and one paper mill in Totley.

1696 • Window Tax imposed.

Bryn Cottage, Hillfoot Road datestone 1704

1783 • There were 21 houses in Totley.

1812 • The Greenoak Inn was built at the top of Mickley Lane. Taking advantage of the new turnpike which came up Mickley Lane and on to Stoney Middleton via Owler Bar.

1818 • Around this date Samuel Hopkinson opened the Cross Scythes pub. He was a farmer and scythe maker and had lived and worked there since the beginning of the 19th century. As with the Greenoak Inn the opportunity arose when the new turnpike was built straight in front of his farmhouse.

1821 • Turnpike road between Sharrow Lane and Totley completed.

1826 • A letter from Sheffield to Totley cost 3d!

Totley Grange gatepier dated 1875

1875 • Totley Grange was built by Ebenezer Hall. Thomas Earnshaw was living there by the 1890s.It was demolished in 1965 to make way for the new Totley Grange estate.

1877 • Totley Church school moved from Totley Hall Lane to it present site on Hillfoot Road.

Totley Hall datestone 1883

1883  • Alderman Joseph Mountain opened the Victoria Gardens. This was a pleasure garden of 14 or 15 acres Just above the Totley Rise shops. It catered for the Sheffield tourists and carriage trade who were now using the turnpike road for trips into Derbyshire. Unfortunately the project failed and the gardens closed in 1887.

           • Brinkburn Grange built by Thomas B. Matthews. It was demolished in 1938.

1886 • A great snowstorm in February caused chaos .in the district. 40 men worked for days cutting a track through the snow from Owler Bar to the Wooden Pole.

Totley Hall Lodge 1887 datestone

1887 • The Lodge, next to the infant school, on Totley Hall Lane was built. to serve the Hall.

1888 • The Midland Railway Company started work on the Totley Tunnel. This was to establish a direct rail link between Sheffield and Manchester.

       • The shops and houses at Totley Rise were built to house the Tunnel navvies. They were known as Bricky Row.

        • Smallpox epidemic. Victoria Gardens pavilion was used as a convalescent hospital.

1889 • A temporary building was added to the Church school to accommodate the children of the navvies working on the tunnel. It was replaced by a permanent stone structure in 1939.

1892 • Smallpox epidemic. Affecting mostly navvies working on the tunnel.

1893 • The Totley Tunnel opened for goods trains on 6th November. Passengers were able to use it by May 1894. It is 3 miles 950 yards long and there are 5 air shafts in Totley. The tunnel finishes at Grindleford station.

1896 • Totley Rise Methodist Church opened.

Alms Houses memorial stone 1900

1900 • Almshouses at the bottom of Bushey Wood Road built.

         • Totley Rifle Range opened.

1901 • There were 205 houses in Totley and 1000 inhabitants.

1913 • The Dore and Totley United Reformed Church opened on Totley Brook Road. It replaced the 'Tin Tab', an iron building that was moved from Dore station in 1908.

1920 • Totley Parish War Memorial dedicated.
1923 • All Saints Church built on land given by Mr. & Mrs. Milner of Totley Hall. The Chancel is dedicated to their younger son, Sec. Lt. Roy Milner, who was killed in World War I. The Church opened in the following year.

All Saints Church wrought-iron date on porch door

1924 • Dore and Totley High School for Girls opened. The rooms of St John's Church Hall at Abbeydale were used until the school moved to larger premises in Grove Road. It was a private school started by Miss Dorothy A. Trott.

1929 • Green Oak Recreation Ground opened by Mrs. Milner.

1931 • The Totley Rise Methodist Church School for Sunday school children opened at the end of Grove Road.

1933 • Dore and Totley High School moved to Grove Road. The school closed in 1966.

Derbyshire County Council 1933, on signpost to Dore

1935 • Totley and Dore were absorbed into Sheffield and Yorkshire. Until then they had been part of Derbyshire.

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1939 • Totley Branch Library opened in the row of shops at the bottom of Bushey Wood Road. It was in use until the new one opened further up on Baslow Road.

1950 • The estimated population of Totley was 4000 approx.

1951 • The new Totley County Primary school opened on Baslow Road.

1958 • The Old Hay Brook burst its banks causing extensive damage to properties .

1964 • The Church of the English Martyrs built.

1965 • Totley Grange Estate built.

1974 • Totley Branch Library moved to its new location on Baslow Road.

1977 • Totley Independent begins publication.

1979 • The Shepley Spitfire pub is built and named in memory of Pilot Officer Douglas Shepley of Woodthorpe Hall who died in 1940 when his plane was shot down and whose family raised funds to buy a new Spitfire.