In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nunnykirk like this:
NUNNY-KIRK, a township in Nether Witton parish, Northumberland; on the river Font, 8½ miles N W of Morpeth. Acres, 111. Pop., 31. Houses, 4. Nunny-Kirk House is the seat ofW. Orde, Esq., and stands in a richly-wooded park. A chapel was anciently built here by the abbot of Newminster, and gave rise to the name Nunny-Kirk. .
Nunnykirk through time
Nunnykirk is now part of Alnwick district. Click here for graphs and data of how Alnwick has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Nunnykirk itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Nunnykirk, in Alnwick and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9583
Date accessed: 07th May 2024
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