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"MILDENHALL, a parish, post, and small market town in the hundred of Lackford, county Suffolk, 5 miles N. of the Kennit railway station, and 9 N.E. of Newmarket. At Mildenhall Road is a station on the Great Eastern railway; it is situated on the river Lark, a tributary of the Ouse, and near the line of the Great Eastern railway. The Mildenhall Drain and the Drove pass in the vicinity. The parish includes the hamlets of Beck Row, Burnt Fen, Holywell Row, West Row, and Wilde Street. It is a polling place for West Suffolk, and a petty sessions town. The manor was given by Edward the Confessor to find the Bury monks in wheaten bread. In 1567 a great part of the town was consumed by fire."
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003
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OS Grid reference TL710740 - Mildenhall
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