Tunstead, Derbyshire

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Tunstead
Monument to James Brindley with ash tree.
Tunstead shown within Derbyshire
OS grid reference	SK104741
District	High Peak
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BUXTON
Postcode district	SK17
Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
European Parliament	East Midlands
List of places: UK • England • Derbyshire

Coordinates: 53°15′50″N 1°50′42″W / 53.264, -1.845

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} Tunstead 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.^{[citation needed]}