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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"TUNSTALL, a parish in the hundred of Lonsdale South of the Sands, county Lancaster, 4 miles N.E. of Hornby railway station, and 3½ S. of Kirkby-Lonsdale, its post town. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Greta and Lune, and contains the townships of Leck, Tunstall, Burrow, and Cantfield. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, value £332. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, was restored in 1850. The register dates from 1620. There is also the district church of Leck, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, value £80. There is an endowed school. Thurlow Castle and Burrow Hall are the principal residences. It. T. North, Esq., is lord of the manor."