Tunstall in the Domesday Book (1086)

Tunstall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Land of Count Alan in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Land of Count Alan

• Achebi
• Agglethorpe
• Ainderby [Mires]
• Ainderby [Quernhow]
• Aiskew
• Aldbrough
• Allerthorpe [Hall]
• Ascam
• Ascham
• Asebi
• Aske [Hall]
• Askrigg
• Aysgarth
• Baldersby

The Meaning of the Name

The origin of the name Tunstall is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Tunstall.

Listed Buildings Near Tunstall

Historic England records 1 listed building within about a mile of Tunstall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Church of Holy Trinity - 0.33 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Tunstall

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Tunstall:

• Round barrow 650m north west of Winterfield House - 1.1 km
• Round barrow 570m north of Winterfield House - 1.51 km

Tunstall Today

Today Tunstall lies within the administrative area of North Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 323 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Tunstall on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• East Appleton - 2.0 km E
• Scotton - 2.0 km W
• Brough Hall - 2.0 km N
• Hornby - 2.2 km SE
• Hackforth - 3.2 km E
• Catterick - 3.6 km NE