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Topic: Meldenhall/Mildenhall Castle
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ChazAmerica
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posted 10-12-2000 12:03 AM
  
Good Day,I am attempting to find information about my ancestry and their Meldenhall or Mildenhall Castle in England. Unfortunately, I do not know what region it is in. Help? [This message has been edited by ChazAmerica (edited 10-13-2000).] |
Levan
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posted 10-12-2000 02:14 AM
There is certainly a Mildenhall in Suffolk, probably best known for its RAF/USAF base, but a castle? I don't know.Maybe Suffolk County Council could help? http://www.suffolkcc.gov.uk Levan |
Philip Davis
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posted 10-22-2000 05:01 AM
According to my database there is a motte and bailey castle at Milden in Suffolk (The site is known as Foxburrow Hill) but there is little known history for this site. Milden is some way from Mildenhall. I have no record of a medieval castle at Mildenhall but this doesn't exclude the possibility of the manor house being called a castle, despite being unfortified, or, more likely, a 18th or 19th century grand house being called a castle during one of the periodic fashionable revivals of the medieval period style(s). Locating a house called Mildenhall castle may be quite difficult without a personal trip to the records held in Suffolk county library.There is also a Mildenhall in Wiltshire. This is a village just outside the town of Marlborough. Marlborough had a famous royal castle, the earthworks of which still exist in the grounds of the famous public school (British public schools are private institutions not run by the state). I don't think that is possible that this medieval castle was every called Mildenhall. There is a possibility of a later grand house in the village of Mildenhall being called castle but again this would need research at the Wiltshire county library. Sorry I can't be of more help but since both Suffolk and Wiltshire are beautiful places it might be worth considering a trip. ------------------
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wurdsmiff
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posted 10-22-2000 08:23 AM
Point of order, British does not mean English, Public schools in Scotland are just that, and fee-paying schools are Private.------------------
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- Mason family motto.
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GEORGINA
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posted 11-03-2000 02:25 PM
I LIVE ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES FROM MILDENHALL AND I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A CASTLE THERE. YOU,VE GOT ME INTREAGUED NOW SO IF I FIND ANYTHING I'LL LET YOU KNOW |
GEORGINA
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posted 11-07-2000 06:57 AM
HI CHAZ
I HAVE MANAGED, AT LAST, TO DISCOVER THAT THERE IS A MANOR HOUSE AT MILDENHALL, SUFFOLK. NO DETAILS YET BUT I'M TALKING TO A LOCAL HISTORIAN TOMORROW, SO FINGERS CROSSED.
FOR BACKGROUND ON SUFFOLK THERE ARE LOADS OF SITES(I SEARCHED MOST OF THEM). GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SEARCH. I'LL UPDATE TOMORROW |
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