Nounsley is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hatfield Peverel, in the Braintree district, in the county of Essex, England.

[3] There is one public house, The Sportsman's Arms and a ford across the River Ter.

In the winter of 1962–63, snow on Nounsley Hill cut off the village to wheeled traffic for three days.

[4] The village was home to Grace Chappelow during 1910, when she and 119 other suffragettes planned a raid on the House of Commons.

[5] The village was known as a poultry producing area,[6] and was described in a 1972 development plan, has developed more as an isolated housing estate than a village[7]Iron Age, Belgic and Roman pottery was found at the site of Nounsley's brickfield, which were displayed at Colchester Museum.