Mells, Suffolk
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Mells is a hamlet in the English county of Suffolk.
It is on the southern bank of the
East Suffolk
district.
The place-name 'Mells' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Mealla. The name simply means 'mills', from the Old English 'mylen'.[1]
References
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.321.