Ninnes, Cornwall

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

Toponymy

Recorded as Insula, Enes, Enys, Nenis. An enys is isolated land or an island. Wartha was recorded in 1403.

History

Higher Ninnes was sold by auction in 1880 by Elizabeth Nicholls. The property consisted of a dwelling house with necessary outbuildings and approximately of arable and pasture land, with extensive commonable rights.