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Mildenhall, town (parish), Forest Heath district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, eastern England, on the River Lark.

The town retains its hexagonal market, cross dating from the reign of Henry V and now scheduled as an ancient monument. The Church of St. Mary (13th to 15th century) has a tower 112 feet (34 metres) high. It is distinguished for the open-timber hammerbeam roof of the nave.

The so-called Mildenhall Treasure is a hoard of Roman silver tableware acquired by the British Museum in 1946, having apparently been discovered four years earlier in the plowing of a field at West Row, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Mildenhall, near remains of a 4th-century Roman building. The majority of the pieces, 34 in all, seem to be of 4th-century workmanship, and some are products of Mediterranean factories. Possibly the owners buried their family plate in the troubled days of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

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Mildenhall lies amid a farming area for which it acts as the main service centre. Pop. (2001) 9,906; (2011) 10,315.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.