Minley
| Minley | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Barracks on Minley Road | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU821582 |
| Location: | 51°19’2"N, -0°49’19"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Fleet |
| Postcode: | GU17 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Hart |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North East Hampshire |
Minley is a slightly depopulated rural, well-wooded village in Hampshire. Little remains here but the Church of England parish church, for the Parish of Minley, and army facilities. It straddles on the A327 road between the M3 and Yateley.
Outlying retail parades of Blackwater and Farnborough are about a mile between all three places, on Minley Road and the east end of Sandy Lane (in Cove and Hawley).
History
Minley is included in the Domesday Book[1] as Mindeslei,[2] in the Holesete Hundred of Hampshire, as a manor in Yateley, assessed at 2 hides and at 20 shillings. It was held directly of the King by Alsi son of Brictsi.
Spellings of Minley include: Mundeleya, 1189–1199; Mundele, 1236; Mendeley, 1280; Mynley, 1516;[3] and Mindley in the 18th century.[4] Minley ferm (Farm) is shown on a general whole-county map, of a near-national series, by Norden from 1607[5] as well as Crundall Hundred.
Per the Domesday Book, the manor was land/estate of 2 hides (likely about 240 to 300 acres; now however, Minley Manor (more formally Minley Manor House) is the mansion house built by Henry Clutton in 1858–60, later for some time with its own demesne grounds used by the Royal School of Military Engineering.[6]
Guillemont Barracks east before Minley Road, on its north side, abutting Hawley and Cove, were built in 1938.[7] After they were decommissioned by the British Army, they were bought by Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36m. Later permission was given for housing development.
Gibraltar Barracks, further north on the Minley Road, were built in the 1970s and are still in use.[8]
Outside links
- Minley Historic Rural Settlement publication, including tithe map of 1846
- Photograph of Church of St. Andrews, Minley
References
- ↑ Minley in the Domesday Book
- ↑ A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 4 pp 20-26: Parishes: Yateley (Victoria County History)
- ↑ Crondal records from Yateley Local History
- ↑ Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Archived at the University of Portsmouth
- ↑ Old map by Norden from 1607
- ↑ "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/southeast/128075-historic-minley-manor-sold-international-investor. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ↑ Mary and John: the early years, Volume 2 by Michael John Laekas
- ↑ "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976". http://www.refdc.co.uk/keyword/queen/i-RhHcZFn/A. Retrieved 31 March 2018.