[1] Tunstall was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1096 as being in the hundred of "Land of Count Alan" and the county of Yorkshire, the population was estimated at 14.8 households.In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tunstall as:"a township-chapelry in Catterick parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles S of Catterick-Bridge r. station."The village lies within the Richmond (Yorks) parliamentary constituency, which is under the control of the Conservative Party.[2] The church was built in 1846 as a chapel of ease to St Michael and All Angels in neighbouring Hudswell.[5] Tunstall has one public house, The Bay Horse, which is tied to the Yorkshire-based brewer Samuel Smith.