Tunstead, Derbyshire

Infobox UK place
country = England
static_

static_image_caption=Monument to James Brindley with ash tree.
latitude = 53.264
longitude = -1.845
map_type = Derbyshire
official_name = Tunstead
population =
shire_district = High Peak
shire_county = Derbyshire
region = East Midlands
constituency_westminster =
post_town = BUXTON
postcode_district =SK17
postcode_area = SK
dial_code =
os_grid_reference = SK104741

Tunstead is a village in Derbyshire, England, situated in Great Rocks Dale north of Buxton.It should not be confused with Tunstead Milton, which is roughly five miles to the north west.

It is famous as the birthplace of James Brindley, pioneer builder of Britain's canals. He was born in 1716 in a farmhouse on the edge of the village and with the encouragement of his mother he became an apprentice millwright in Leek. Fact|date=June 2008 By 1875 the farm had fallen into ruins, marked only by an ashtree, when a monument to his memory was placed in nearby Wormhill. By 1958, the ashtree also had gone, and the Derbyshire Archaeological Society planted a sapling in its place and erected another monument. Fact|date=June 2008Tunstead is also famous for the quarry, on the other side of the old Midland Railway line from Millers Dale to Chapel en le Frith. Being just outside the boundary of the Peak District National Park it is probably the most extensively worked in the area, yielding high quality limestone exceptionally free of volcanic rock. Fact|date=June 2008

External links

*gbmaprim|SK114754|Maps of Tunstead