Mildenhall (/ˈmaɪnəl/ MY-nəl)[2] is a village and civil parish in the Kennet Valley in Wiltshire, England, immediately east of the market town of Marlborough.

[3][4] The toponym is derived from the Old English but the site has been occupied since the Roman occupation of Britain, when the town of Cunetio (later a fortress) stood at an important road junction, on the opposite side of the river from the later village.

Cunetio was deserted as a Romano-British site in about AD 450, but the site was reoccupied in the Anglo-Saxon era and a West Saxon charter drawn up between 803 and 805 refers to this settlement in its first recognisably modern form as Mildanhald,[7] meaning "a nook of land of a woman called Milde or a man called Milda".

[11] The ancient parish had three tithings, namely Mildenhall, Poulton (west, now on the edge of Marlborough) and Stitchcombe (south of the Kennet).

[12] In 1881 the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway company built their Swindon-Marlborough line through the Og valley in the southwest of the parish.

Julian Orbach, updating Pevsner's work, writes "in Gothick style, the very model of Late Georgian arrangements ...

[18] The refitting cost altogether around £2,000 and was instigated by Charles Francis (rector from 1788 until his death in 1821, also rural dean) and paid for by himself and twelve local property-owners, named on six shields displayed in the church.

[25] A large new rectory was built in 1862, in brick in a classical style, set back from the Marlborough road about a quarter of a mile west of the village;[17] this house in turn was sold in 1965.

Orbach describes the Grade II* listed house – dated 1706 and extended in the 19th century – as a perfect example of Queen Anne style.

Mildenhall publishes a monthly newsletter called The Parish Pump, a joint publication with the neighbouring village of Axford.