Milden is a village and

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in the Babergh district, in

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, England. Located around miles from

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. In 2021 the parish had a population of 118. The parish borders Brent Eleigh, Edwardstone, Groton,

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and

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. There are 18 listed buildings in Milden. St Peter's Church is a

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. The parish contains the Milden Thicks

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and the remains of Milden Castle.

History

The name "Milden" means 'Melda's people' or 'orach place'. Milden was recorded in the

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as ''Mellinga''. The Domesday book records that, in 1086, the village had eighteen households, one (water) mill, and one church. The abbey of St Edmund held one household, whilst the Essex and Suffolk landowner Walter the Deacon held the other seventeen, along with the church, mill, and most of the village's resources. During the twelfth century, 'some men of the monks of Canterbury were wounded even to death' in the village, although the monks refused to bring the matter to court due to an ongoing dispute over the rights of the courts of St Edmund's Abbey and those of the

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to hear cases in the region. The dispute was begun by another murder in the neighbouring village of Monks Eleigh, where the murderers had been captured by Robert de Cockfield and taken to the courts of St Edmund rather than Canterbury - who held Monks Eleigh. Milden was in the Babergh hundred, in 1894 it became part of

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which became part of the administrative county of

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in 1889. In 1974 it became part of Babergh non-metropolitan district in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk.

Notable residents

* William Burkitt, local vicar *

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, politician *

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(1880-1966), policeman and eighth British colonial

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from 1913 to 1937.

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References

External links

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