Tunneley Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Exton
Historical Forms
- Todyngley 15 VCH
- Tarringley wood 1610 Speed 1715 Map
- Turnely Wood c1800 ib
- Turneley Wood 1806 ib
- Tunnely Wood 1824 O
- Tunneley Wood 1846 White 1943 Map
Etymology
This was possibly a medieval deer park. There are references to a park at Exton in 1185, 1207, 1218 and 1269, v. VCH 2128, 130, 253. Little can be made of this name without earlier forms, v. lēah .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Barnsdale, Barnsdale Avenue, Barnsdale Hill, Barnsdale Lodge, Barnsdale Wood
- Westland Wood
- Armley Wood
Other OS name
- Ash Plantation
- Little Exton
- Stone Pit
- West End
- the Willows
- Yew Tree Ho
- Brook Fm
- Burley Bushes
- Cocked Hat Spinney
- Cuckoo Fm
- Cuckoo Spinney
- Exton Church
- Exton Hall
- Exton Park
- the Firs
- Fox and Hounds P.H.
- Fox Bridge
- the Grange
- the Green
- Hall Fm
- Hawkswell Spinney, Hawkswell Spring
- Highmoor Fm
- Horn Mill
- Mill Dam
- New Field Road
- New Garden Spinney
- Old Hall
- Pudding Bag End
- Pudding Bag Lane
- Rattling Jack Spinney
- the Rectory
- Robin Hood's Cave
- Rushpit Wood
- Top Lodge
- Keeper's Cottage
- Stamford End
- Blacksmiths Lane
- Ry Gate Plantation
- Tyler's Corner