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

Early-attested site in the Parish of Stranton

Historical Forms

  • thuncstall c.1220 Spec
  • Tonstall' 1384 Spec
  • Tunstall next Stranton 1468,1512 IPM
  • Tunstall by Stranton 1475 NbDu
  • Tunstall next Straynton 1500 ib
  • Tunstall 1567 IPM 1601 Lond

Etymology

'A farmstead', OE  *tūnstall, a common p.n. type.

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement