In 1798,
Edward Hasted records that it had once been called
Dunstall. This comes from the Saxon words
dun, or
dune, meaning a hill, and
stealle meaning a place. It was recorded in the
Domesday survey, mistakenly as Stealle. At that time the parish covered around nine hundred acres of land (about 364 ha), of which about one hundred and forty were woodland. ==Modern day==