Mildenhall
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.
Getting around Mildenhall the local way
- 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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Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brandon Esau (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.