Tunstall is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.

Other Settlements in Scarsdale

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 6 listed buildings within about a mile of Tunstall. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade I

Church of St John the Baptist - 0.27 km

Grade II

Chest Tomb 10 Metres South West of Church of St John the Baptist - 0.28 km
Rowthorne Lodge - 0.86 km
The Grange - 1.02 km
Stainsby Mill - 1.05 km
Ault Hucknall War Memorial - 1.08 km

Tunstall Today

Today Tunstall lies within the administrative area of Bolsover, and the settlement recorded a population of 1,330 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 Ault Hucknall on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

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

Blingsby - 0.0 km N
Stainsby - 1.0 km W
Bramley Vale - 1.0 km N
Glapwell - 1.4 km NE
Rowthorne - 1.4 km SE
Lowne - 2.8 km NW

Heritage Around Tunstall

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.

Tunstall in the Domesday Book (1086)