Mildenhall, Wiltshire, SN8 2LY
Date of visit: 25th September 2022
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Mildenhall is a village and civil parish in the Kennet Valley in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the market town of Marlborough.
The toponym is derived from the Old English but the site has been occupied since the Roman occupation of Britain, when the fortress town of Cunetio stood at an important road junction on approximately the same site. No remains of this fortress are now standing, but are clearly visible on aerial photographs. The Cunetio Hoard of Roman coins was discovered here in 1978. The name of the River Kennet, which runs through Mildenhall, is thought to have been derived from the Roman name, which is also used on the village’s coat-of-arms.
Cunetio was deserted as a Romano-British site in about AD 450, but the site was reoccupied in the Anglo-Saxon era and a West Saxon charter drawn up between 803 and 805 refers to this settlement in its first recognisably modern form as Mildanhald, meaning “a nook of land of a woman called Milde or a man called Milda”. The village is again mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086 as Mildenhalle and the name has since undergone numerous subtle changes in spelling and pronunciation.
Internal ref number: WT/174/173
Date of Visit: 25th Sep 2022
Kiosk Type: K6
Door Type: B
Crown: Tudor
Kiosk Colour: Red
Usage: Book
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Northing & Westing: 51°25’37.8″N, 1°41’38.8″W
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Grid Reference: SU 21363 69840
OS X & Y: 169840, 421363
Latitude & Longitude: 51.427164, -1.69412
UK Postcode: SN8 2LY
County: Wiltshire
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