Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Saltonstall 1196–1202,1235 YChviii 1297–1324 WCR 1309 Ext 1323 MinAcct 1379 PT 1574 YDii

• Over Saltonstall 1309 Ext

• High(e) Saltonstall 1575 WillY 1709 WMB

• Nether Saltonstall, Over Saltonstall 1822 Langd

• Saltonstal 1278 WYD

• Saltunstal 1238–54 ADi

• Saltunstall 1275 WCR

• Saltonestal(l) 1274 1276 RH

• High Sottonstall, lower Sattanstalle 1624 Greave

• vaccaria 1315 WCRiii,72

Etymology

Saltonstall, Saltonstall 1196–1202, 1235 YCh viii, 1297–1324 WCR (freq ), 1309 Ext, 1323MinAcct , 1379 PT (p)et passim to 1574 YD ii, Over Saltonstall 1309 Ext, High (e ) Saltonstall 1575 WillY, 1709 WMB, Nether Saltonstall , Over Saltonstall 1822 Langd, Saltonstal 1278 WYD, Saltunstal 1238–54 AD i, Saltunstall 1275 WCR, Saltonestal (l )1274 ib, 1276 RH, High Sottonstall , lower Sattanstalle 1624 Greave. 'Farmstead near the willow', v. salh , tūn-stall. The second el. tūn -stall occurs several times in this parish: Cruttonstall 172, Wittonstall 179, Heptonstall 191, Rawtonstall 197, Shackleton 201, and a lost Netteltonstall 171 infra ; five of them may have plant- or tree-names as the first el.Here tūn-stall seems to denote 'a vaccary, a farmstead where cows are pastured' (Saltonstall is described as vaccaria in 1315 WCR iii, 72). These tunstalls are all on the edge of the moorlands and above the usual limit of arable ground. Unlike most examples of tūn -stall , which are usually simplex names, these local p.ns. as well as Rawtenstall just over the Lancashire border (La 92) are compound p.ns. Cf. further HAS 49, 49 ff. It may be added with regard to the pronunciation of these names with a secondary stress on the final el. -stall that the shifting of the secondary accent from the middle syllable to the final one is paralleled by such p.ns. as Gildersome 223, Wothersome pt. iv infra , Loftsome YE 243, etc. (cf. Ritter 144, Smith, LMS i, 51–2); the same phenomenon also explains the later forms of Rawtenstall La, Rotenstall , R (o )unstall . There is no need to suppose (as Goodall 237, 240 does) that -stall is a later addition to older p.ns. in -tūn .