Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word TUNSTEAD

Definitions of TUNSTEAD

1. A village in High Peak, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1175).
2. A settlement near in Greenfield, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SE0004).
3. A village in North Norfolk, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2921).

Examples of Using TUNSTEAD in a Sentence

• He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th Century.
• It is the location of Tunstead Dickey, a "Screaming Skull", and is mentioned in Highways and Byways in Derbyshire by J B Frith, a guide published in 1905, and in Black's Guide published throughout the 19th century.
• However, the line through Dove Holes Tunnel from Chinley is still used for freight, such as limestone from Tunstead, along with the old Midland branch into Buxton and part of the old Ashbourne Line (closed to passengers in October 1954), which remains in use to serve a lime works at Dowlow and the quarry at Hindlow.
• The Hundreds of Blofield, Clavering, Depwade, Diss, Earsham, North Erpingham, South Erpingham, Eynesford, East Flegg, West Flegg, Forehoe, Happing, Henstead, Humbleyard, Loddon, Taversham, Tunstead and Walsham.
• The academy has close links with the communities which surround it and takes pupils from feeder schools in Rackheath, Salhouse, Neatishead, Horning, Tunstead and Coltishall as well as Hoveton.
• In November 1995, it was loaned for a short time to Tunstead Quarry to haul a 975-ton train of hopper wagons, and five years later in December 2000 it als worked a special one-off freight train along the Settle and Carlisle line from Hellifield to Ribblehead Quarry where the hopper wagons were loaded.
• There is no doubt he intended to write a complete county history of the whole of the eastern part of Norfolk, a part neglected by Francis Blomefield, and succeeded in completing the Hundreds of East and West Flegg, Happing, and Tunstead, but died before he had done more than seven parishes in North Erpingham.

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