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.

Thurstonland

Major Settlement in the Parish of Kirkburton

Historical Forms

  • Tostenland 1086 DB
  • Turstain(e)land(a) 1184–91 YChvi 1202–10 ib
  • Tursteinland 1191–1194 P
  • Tursteinesland 1196 P
  • Thurstainland(a) 13 YDvi 1246 Ass6d
  • Turstanland 1211 P
  • Thurstanland(e) 1202 FF 1243 Fees 1250–75 YDiv p.1290 YDiii 1297 1542 Testvi
  • Thurstaneland 1298 Abbr
  • Thirwistandland 1316 Vill

Etymology

'Thurstan's expanse of land', v. land . The pers.n. is ON  Þorsteinn , ODan  Thorsten , Þursten , later anglicised to Thurstan (cf. Feilitzen 390. 396).

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site