Meanings
plural Tunstalls
- A number of places in England:
- countableuncountableA small village in Roos parish, East Riding of Yorkshire (OS grid ref TA3032).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish south of Sittingbourne, Swale district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ8961).
- countableuncountableA small village and civil parish in Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6073).
- countableuncountableA small village in Halvergate parish, Broadland district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG4108).
- countableuncountableA hamlet in Newby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5212).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE2195).
- countableuncountableA hamlet in Adbaston parish, Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ7727).
- countableuncountableA town in the City of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, one of the Potteries (OS grid ref SJ864516).
- countableuncountableA village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM3655).
- countableuncountableA suburban village between Ryhope and New Silksworth, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ3953).
- countableuncountableA locality in the Rural Municipality of Enterprise, No. 142, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
- countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
Origin
- Old Englishtūn“enclosure; settlement, town”
- EnglishTunstall
From Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”) + steall (“stable”).
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Tunstall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tunstall
“Tunstall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tunstall. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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