Ninnes, Cornwall

Road junction at Lower Ninnes

Higher Ninnes and Lower Ninnes are hamlets, south of Mulfra Hill in the civil parish of Madron in west Cornwall, England, UK.[1][2]

Toponymy

Recorded as Insula (in 1314), Enes (1327'), Enys (1403), Nenis (1623). An enys is isolated land or an island. Wartha (higher) was recorded in 1403.[3]

History

Higher Ninnes was sold by auction in 1880 by Elizabeth Nicholls. The property consisted of a dwelling house with necessary outbuildings and approximately 18 acres (7.3 ha) of arable and pasture land, with extensive commonable rights.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Maps (Map). Google Maps. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
  3. ↑ Pool, Peter A S (1985). The Place-Names Of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: PAS Pool. p. 61.
  4. ↑ "Higher Ninnes, Madron". The Cornishman (116). 30 September 1880. p. 1.


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