Similar place names in the British Isles include Tynwald, Dingwall, and Tingwall; see also Thingvellir in Iceland and Tingvoll in Norway.

[5] A place called "Tingvalla" can also be found in the swedish town Karlstad where it can be dated back to the viking age as a councel- and marketplace.

Little evidence of these quarries now exists as the land has been redeveloped for housing or for the construction of a second above-ground fresh water reservoir.

[11] On 1 April 1974, local government reorganisation in England and Wales resulted in most of Wirral, including Thingwall, being transferred from the county of Cheshire to Merseyside.

Thingwall sits at the western side of the wide and shallow glacial U-shaped valley, formed during the Quaternary Ice Age, between Thurstaston Hill and Storeton Ridge.

At local government level, the village is part of the Pensby and Thingwall Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.