Mildenhall (Suffolk)
Mildenhall is a municipality (Civil Parish ) in the English county of Suffolk with about 11,500 inhabitants. The eponymous town of Mildenhall is the administrative seat of the district of Forest Heath and is located near the highway A11 London - Norwich on the River Lark. The nearest large towns are Lakenheath, Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds.
Evidence of settlements in the area around Mildenhall date back to the Upper Paleolithic. The Romans founded here the city Cunetio, which lasted until the 5th century. In the Domesday Book of 1086 64 families recorded for the community Mildenhall then. 1412 was the place market rights. As part of the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century the manor passed from the abbots of Bury St Edmunds to the noble family North through.
In the center of the city, the church of St Mary is from the 12th century.
Mildenhall is today best known for the treasure of Mildenhall ( Mildenhall treasure ), a large treasure of silver Roman times, and in 1934 opened airbase RAF Mildenhall. This was also the starting place of the 1934 MacRobertson air race finishing in Melbourne, Australia.
Associated with the place people
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex (place of death )
- Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of Parliament in the 18th century