Milden, Suffolk
{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name= Milden
| country= England
| region= East of England
| os_grid_reference=
| coordinates = {{coord|52.082|0.855|display=inline,title}}
| post_town= Ipswich
| postcode_area= IP
| postcode_district= IP7
| dial_code=
| constituency_westminster= South Suffolk
| shire_county= Suffolk
| shire_district= Babergh
| civil_parish= Milden
| hide_services= Yes
| population = 118
| population_ref = (2021)
| area_total_km2=5.436
| static_image = St Peter's Church, Milden - geograph.org.uk - 724655.jpg
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption= St Peter's Church
}}
Milden is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in Suffolk, England. Located around {{frac|4|1|2}} miles from Sudbury. In 2021 the parish had a population of 118.{{cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/admin/babergh/E04009111__milden/|title=Milden|publisher=City Population|accessdate=13 January 2024}} The parish borders Brent Eleigh, Edwardstone, Groton, Lindsey, Little Waldingfield and Monks Eleigh.{{cite web|url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/63067/touches.html|title=Areas touching Milden|publisher=Mapit|accessdate=13 January 2024}} There are 18 listed buildings in Milden.{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/milden-babergh-suffolk|title=Listed buildings in Milden, Babergh, Suffolk|publisher=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=13 January 2024}} St Peter's Church is a Grade I listed building.{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1037111?section=official-list-entry|title=Church of St Peter|publisher=Historic England|accessdate=13 January 2024}}
The parish contains the Milden Thicks SSSI and the remains of Milden Castle.
History
The name "Milden" means 'Melda's people' or 'orach place'.{{cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Suffolk/Milden|title=Milden Key to English Place-names|publisher=The University of Nottingham|accessdate=13 January 2024}} Milden was recorded in the Domesday Book as Mellinga.{{cite web|url=https://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/suffolk4.html#milden|title=Suffolk I-M|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|accessdate=13 January 2024}} The Domesday book records that, in 1086, the village had eighteen households, one (water) mill, and one church.{{Cite web |title=Milden {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TL9546/milden/ |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=opendomesday.org}} 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 Archbishop of Canterbury to hear cases in the region.{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson, by Jocelin de Brakelond |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37780/37780-h/37780-h.htm |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=www.gutenberg.org |page=78 - 79}} 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.{{Cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson, by Jocelin de Brakelond |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37780/37780-h/37780-h.htm |access-date=2024-12-15 |website=www.gutenberg.org |page=76 - 77}}
Milden was in the Babergh hundred, in 1894 it became part of Cosford Rural District which became part of the administrative county of West Suffolk in 1889.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10263396|title=Relationships and changes Milden CP/AP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=13 January 2024}} In 1974 it became part of Babergh non-metropolitan district in the non-metropolitan county of Suffolk.
Notable residents
- William Burkitt, local vicar
- Simonds d'Ewes, politician
- Herbert Dowbiggin (1880-1966), policeman and eighth British colonial Inspector General of Police of Ceylon from 1913 to 1937.
Location grid
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References
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External links
{{Commons category|Milden, Suffolk}}
- [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp;jsessionid=3A072010FDEA87DE2346E0DE435A4B4B?p_id=7502 Milden] Vision of Britain
- [http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/milden.htm St Peter's Church] Suffolk Churches
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Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk
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