Mildenhall
Mildenhall is a market town in the civil parish of Mildenhall High, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.
Mildenhall is a market town in the civil parish of Mildenhall High, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The town is near the A11, and is 37 mi (60 km) north-west of Ipswich. The large Royal Air Force station, RAF Mildenhall, as well as RAF Lakenheath, are located north of the town. Both are used by the United States Air Force and Mildenhall is the headquarters of its 100th Air Refueling Wing and 352nd Special Operations Group. Mildenhall is often seen as the start of The Fens on the south/east.
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Worth seeing in and around Mildenhall
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St Mary's Church, Mildenhall
St Mary's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Mildenhall, Suffolk.
200 m · church in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Aspal Close
Aspal Close is an 18.9 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Beck Row in Suffolk. It is owned by West Suffolk District Council and managed by the council together with Aspal Close Management Committee.
2.9 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Barton Mills Valley
Barton Mills Valley is a 10.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Mildenhall in Suffolk. It is owned and managed by West Suffolk Council.
1.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04How Hill Track
How Hill Track is a 3.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Mildenhall in Suffolk. It is in the Breckland Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
4.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Eriswell, Suffolk, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Wilde Street Meadow
Wilde Street Meadow is an 11.6-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest between Lakenheath and Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. This site has a long history of traditional management, with low intensity summer grazing.
4.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Suffolk, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths
Cavenham–Icklingham Heaths is a 419 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Icklingham in Suffolk. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, and part of Breckland Special Area of Conservation and Breckland Special Protection Area under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds.
4.5 km · Uk Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 07Lordswell Field
Lordswell Field or Lord's Well Field is a 3.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Eriswell in Suffolk. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. This area of calcareous Breckland heath has a rich variety of flora including two nationally rare plants, spanish catchfly and perennial knawel, the latter of which is protected under Section 13 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
5.5 km · nature conservation site, Eriswell Village, Suffolk · Wikipedia - 08Rex Graham nature reserve
Rex Graham Reserve is a 2.8-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Mildenhall in Suffolk. It is a Special Area of Conservation, and part of the Breckland Special Protection Area.
2.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Mildenhall in Suffolk · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mildenhall
- Airports
- London Stansted (STN), 54 km · London Luton (LTN), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 118 km
- Stations
- RAF Mildenhall, 3 km · Mildenhall railway station, 700 m · Worlington Golf Links Halt railway station, 1.9 km
- London, Essex → Mildenhall103 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–14
- Luton, Luton → Mildenhall82 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- London → Mildenhall103 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mildenhall
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mildenhall. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe A1089 and A13 roads link the ferry terminal with destinations throughout the region.
- Get aroundSince 1912, the Harwich Harbour Ferry has carried passengers across the water between Suffolk and Essex, and operates during the late-spring, summer and early-autumn months.
- Get aroundSpot wherry cargo boats on the rivers - old sail and oar cargo boats now popular with tourists - on the windy waterways, or pleasurecraft which moor in riparian destinations like Wroxham and Horning.
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Next door to Mildenhall
- Barton Millsvillage and civil parish in Suffolk, United Kingdom1.3 km
- Herringswellvillage in Suffolk, England, UK4.9 km
- Red Lodgevillage and civil parish in West Suffolk, England, UK4.6 km
- Tuddenhamvillage in West Suffolk, Suffolk, England4.2 km
- Eriswellvillage in Suffolk, England, UK3 km
- Beck Row, Holywell Row and Kenny Hillcivil parish in Suffolk, UK3.8 km