Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tunstal 1150–60,eHy2 Dane

• (totam insulam que dicitur) Tunstal Hy2 Dane

• (proximam grangie sue de) Tunstal l12 Dane 1338 Pat

• Tunstale Hy2 Dane

• Tonstal 1277 RRGr

• Tunstall e14 Asw

• Tonstall 1537–39 LDRH

• moated area, near Redbourn, called Tunstal, is the site of a small priory of Gilbertine nuns 1842 White

Etymology

Tunstall (lost), Tunstal 1150–60, eHy2 Dane, (totam insulam que dicitur ) Tunstal Hy2 Dane, (proximam grangie sue de ) Tunstal l12 Dane, 1338 Pat, Tunstale Hy2 Dane, Tonstal 1277 RRGr, Tunstall e14Asw , Tonstall 1537–39 LDRH, A moated area , near Redbourn , called Tunstal , is the site of a small priory of Gilbertine nuns 1842 White. 'The site of a farm, a farmstead', v. tūn-stall. It was in fact a grange of Bullington Priory.