Minley

History

Minley is included in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Mindeslei, in the Holesete Hundred, Hantescire (Hampshire) as a manor in Yateley, 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 Middle English orthography); 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 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.

Guillemont Barracks east before Minley Road, on its north side, abutting Hawley and Cove, were built in 1938. After they were decommissioned by the British Army, they were bought by Sun Microsystems in 1997 for £36m. The company built three office buildings on the site, but after two phases were complete and the dot-com bubble 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. 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

References

1. [http://www.blackwaterandhawleytowncouncil.gov.uk/ Blackwater and Hawley Town Council]
2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309022803/http://opendomesday.org/place/SU8258/minley/ Minley entry in Open Domesday] (archived)
3. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56738 British History Online website]
4. [http://yateleylocalhistory.pbworks.com/f/CRONDALRECORDS.pdf Crondal records from Yateley Local History]
5. [http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/s0004550.htm Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Archived at the University of Portsmouth]
6. [http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/refnos/nrd1su85.htm Old map by Norden from 1607]
7. (18 November 2014). "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media.
8. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MR9wDDCUBdgC&dq=Guillemot+Barracks&pg=PT35 Mary and John: the early years, Volume 2 by Michael John Laekas]
9. [http://www.dbre.co.uk/News-former-sun-microsystems-hq-sold.html db Real Estate news January 2011]
10. Sun Microsystems. (June 8, 2009). "Definitive Merger Proxy". United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
11. [http://publicaccess.rushmoor.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=relatedCases&keyVal=MZ4QHRNM0G500 Rushmoor Borough Council planning application]
12. "14/00680/INITI | 48 Residential New Builds | Land at Guillemont Park Sun Park Minley Road Farnborough Hampshire".
13. (5 December 2018). "Land At Guillemont Park Sun Park, Minley Road, Farnborough". Rushmoor Council.
14. "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976".