Nunn Mills
Early-attested site in the Parish of Hardingstone
Historical Forms
- Quyn Johns al. Quingeons Mills al. Nunne Mills 1591 Depositions
Etymology
Nunn Mills (6″) is Quyn Johns al. Quingeons Mills al. Nunne Mills 1591Depositions , and is named from Delapre Abbey near by. The name Quyn Johns or Quingeons Mills was explained by Mr R. W. Brown in the Transactions of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club xxiii, 151–5. The Mills are referred to in Elizabethan times as the Queenes Mylles and Her Majestie 's Mills , and take their name from Joan of Navarre, the second wife of Henry IV, part of whose dowry was land in Northamptonshire, and included what are now known as Nunn Mills.