Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Tineslauue, Tirneslauue 1086 DB

• Tineslaw(e), Tyneslaw(e) 1196 P 1230 Ebor 1276 RH 1379 PT

• Tinesloue 1240 Ebor

• Tineslowe 1254–68 Bodl35 1287 Ebor 1297 LS

• Tuneslawa 1196 P

• Dynesleya 13 Ch 1316

• Tinneslawe, Tynneslawe 1303 KF 1316 Vill 1371 FF 1418 BM

• Tinneslow(e) 1480 Comp 1539 FF

• Tinslowe, Tynslowe 1327 YDxiii,64 1383 Ipm 1612 FF

• Tinslawe 1588 FF

• Tinsley, Tynsley 1525 Testv 1541 BM 1822 Langd

Etymology

'Tynni's mound', v. hlāw . An OE  pers.n. Tyn (n )i is not recorded independently, but is assumed from p.ns. such as Tynsall Wo 363 and would be a variant of the recorded Tun (n )a . The single Dynes - spelling has initial D - paralleled by Dunstall for OE  tūn-stall (v. EPN ii, 198).