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4 unusual facts about Mildenhall


Budgens

Two years later, they started selling their Budgens stores; the largest stores were disposed of on the open market with stores in places including Tadley and Mildenhall to larger store chains.

Livery collar

A monumental brass at Mildenhall shows a knight whose badge of a dog or wolf circled by a crown hangs from a collar with edges suggesting a pruned bough or the ragged staff.

Mildenhall, Wiltshire

Until a few years ago Mildenhall had a post office and village shop.

Norah Hanbury- Kelk Meadows

Norah Hanbury- Kelk Meadows is a reserve near Mildenhall in the county of Suffolk, England.


Andrew Geddes Bain

Bain discovered many fossil remains, including the herbivorous mammal-like reptile dicynodon Oudenodon bainii Owen, which was excavated from the Karoo Beds on the farm Mildenhall south of Fort Beaufort and described by Sir Richard Owen.

Bill Mildenhall

Since 1979, Mildenhall has refereed in the NBL and has also officiated in the 1992 Barcelona and 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Cunetio

The Roman town of Cunetio, located across the River Kennet from the modern town of Mildenhall, Wiltshire, was occupied from the 2nd century AD until the end of the Roman period, early 5th century, when it was apparently abandoned.

John Mildenhall

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diabekir, Butelis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kirman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

RAF Fairford

In 1948 the Americans occupied RAF stations including Fairford, Brize Norton, Burtonwood, Greenham Common, Mildenhall, Lakenheath and Woodbridge to build up a deterrent in Europe against the Soviets.

Steve Mildenhall

Mildenhall played 91 games for the Magpies, scoring one goal (a free-kick against Mansfield Town in a League Cup tie) which later appeared as a 'What happened next' slot on an episode of A Question of Sport.


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