Tunstall, Suffolk

Historical Description

Tunstall, a parish, with Tunstall village and Dunningworth hamlet, in Suffolk, 2:½ miles ESE of Wickham Market Junction station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wickham Market. Acreage, 2852; population, 638. There is a parish council consisting of twelve members. There are clay and sand pits. The living is a double rectory in the diocese of Norwich; commuted value, £541 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled tower. There is a Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Tunstall from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tunstall (St. Michael))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Tunstall are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press