Minley


Minley is a hamlet in the Hart District of Hampshire, England. In the ecclesiastical parish of Minley and the civil parish of Blackwater and Hawley. It lies on the A327 road between the M3 and Yateley. Its nearest town is Blackwater, approximately away to the northeast.

History

Minley is included in the Domesday Book as Mindeslei, in the Holesete Hundred, Hantescire as a Manor in Yateley, assessed at 2 hides and worth 20s, and was in the possession of Alsi son of Brictsi.
Historic spellings of Minley include; Mundeleya, 1189-1199; Mundele, 1236; Mendeley, 1280; Mynley, 1516 and Mindley in the 18th century. Minley ferm is shown on an Old map by Norden from 1607 being in the Crundall Hundred of Hamshire.
In the Domesday Book, the Manor of Minley is described as an area of land/estate of 2 hides ; now however, Minley Manor is a term used locally for the mansion house built by Henry Clutton in 1858-1860, which was formerly used by the Royal School of Military Engineering.
Guillemont Barracks, located further north on the Minley Road, were built in 1938. After the site was decommissioned by the British Army, it was purchased by Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36m. Sun Microsystems intended to build 5 office buildings on the site, but after two phases were complete and the dot com bubble bursting in 2000, phase 3 was halted mid-build . With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation in 2009 business and staff were relocated to Oracle's Headquarters in Thames Valley Park, Reading. Property company Landid bought the former headquarters in January 2011. In December 2013, a planning application to demolish the part built structures and to build 150 homes on the site was refused.
Gibraltar Barracks, located further north on the Minley Road, were built in the 1970s and are still in use.