English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Tunstall

Major Settlement in the Parish of Tunstall

Historical Forms

  • Tunestal(e) 1086 DB t.Ric1 BM 1228 Ebor
  • Donestal(l) 1098–1102,1115,1160–2 YCh1300–7
  • Dunstall 1282 Abbr
  • Tuntstall(e) t.Ric1 Cur 1542 NCWills
  • Tuntstall(e) in Holdernesse 1334,1335 FF
  • Tunstal 1208 FF 1228 RegAlb 1231 Ass 1260 Rental 1301 Ch
  • Tonestal 1299 Ch
  • Thunestalle 1326 Dugd
  • Townstall in Holdernes 1539 FF

Etymology

'Farmstead,' v. tunst(e)all.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site