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Minley is a slightly depopulated rural, well-wooded village in the
Hart District Hart is a local government district in Hampshire, England, named after the River Hart. Its council is based in Fleet. It was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the urban district of Fleet, and the Hartley ...
of
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, England. It has the only church of the
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of Minley and is in the
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of Blackwater and Hawley. It straddles on the A327 road between the M3 and
Yateley Yateley () is a town and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. It lies in the north-eastern corner of Hart District Council area. It includes the settlements of Frogmore and Darby Green to the east. It had a population of 21,011 at t ...
. Outlying retail parades of Blackwater and
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are about between all three places, on Minley Road and the east end of Sandy Lane (in
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and Hawley).


History

Minley is included in the
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Minley entry in Open Domesday
(archived)
as Mindeslei, in the Holesete Hundred, Hantescire (Hampshire) as a manor in
Yateley Yateley () is a town and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. It lies in the north-eastern corner of Hart District Council area. It includes the settlements of Frogmore and Darby Green to the east. It had a population of 21,011 at t ...
, assessed at 2 hides and at 20 shillings (£), and was still held directly of the monarch by Alsi son of Brictsi. Spellings of Minley include: Mundeleya, 1189–1199 which resembles continued Welsh orthography with its use of u for i (as next to n of the time it looked identical to m, see
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); Mundele, 1236; Mendeley, 1280; Mynley, 1516 and Mindley in the 18th century. Minley ferm (Farm) is shown on a general whole-county map, of a near-national series, by Norden from 1607 as well as Crundall Hundred. Per the Domesday Book, the manor was land/estate of 2 hides (likely about 240 to ); now however, Minley Manor (more formally Minley Manor House) is the mansion house built by
Henry Clutton Henry Clutton (19 March 1819 – 27 June 1893)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Photograph , http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GScid=1366392&GRid=12186732&PIgrid=12186732&PIcrid=1366392&PIpi=3000944& was an English arch ...
in 1858–60, later for some time with its own demesne grounds used by the
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.
Guillemont Barracks Guillemont Barracks, located just off of junction 4a of the M3, on the Minley Road (A327), was a military installation at Minley in Hampshire. History The barracks were built in 1938. Covering 13.7ha, they were named after the German-held village ...
east before Minley Road, on its north side, abutting Hawley and Cove, were built in 1938.Mary and John: the early years, Volume 2 by Michael John Laekas
/ref> After they were decommissioned by the British Army, they were bought by
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in 1997 for £36m.db Real Estate news January 2011
/ref> The company built three office buildings on the site, but after two phases were complete and the
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burst in 2000, phase 3 ended mid-build. The whole site became known as Sun Park. The steel superstructure of the underway extra buildings stood until March 2015. After the company was bought by Oracle Corporation in 2009 the facilities and staff relocated to Oracle's Headquarters in Thames Valley Park, Reading. Property company Landid bought the former headquarters in January 2011. In 2013, its planning application to demolish the part-built structures and to build 150 homes there was refused; the next year's application to build 48 homes on the southern half succeeded. As to the rest in January 2015 planning permissions were granted for the demolition of the existing part-built structures and erection of 150 homes, construction of internal roads, provision of open space, school parking area, landscaping and associated infrastructure.https://democracy.rushmoor.gov.uk/documents/s4778/Deed%20of%20variation%20-%20Land%20at%20Guillemont%20Park%20Sun%20Park%20Minley%20Road%20Farnborough.pdf In 2018 Hart District Council granted planning permission for the demolition of the existing office buildings and comprehensive redevelopment of the site for the construction of 313 homes along with internal roads, open space, landscaping and associated infrastructure (Sun Park Phase II). Gibraltar Barracks, further north on the Minley Road, were built in the 1970s and are still in use.


References


External links


Minley Historic Rural Settlement publication, including tithe map of 1846

Photograph of Church of St. Andrews, Minley
{{authority control Villages in Hampshire