MILDENHALL  , a

market town in the Stowmarket parliamentary division of Suffolk, England, 762 in . N.N.E. from London by a branch of the Great Eastern railway from Cambridge . Pop . (19o1), 3567 . It lies on the edge of Mildenhall Fen, the great Fen district stretching northward and westward from here . The church of St Andrew has an Early English chancel with fine east window and chancel arch . The remainder is principally Perpendicular with a magnificent carved oak roof, ornate north porch and lofty tower with fan tracery within . There is a wooden market cross of the 15th century; the manor house is a picturesque gabled building of the 17th century, and there is a modern public hall . Flour milling is an industry . The discovery of Roman remains indicates a small settlement .