Minley Manor

Coordinates: 51°19′01″N 0°49′12″W / 51.317°N 0.820°W / 51.317; -0.820 Minley Manor is a Grade 2 listed country manor house, built in the French style by Henry Clutton in the 1860s with further additions in the 1880s. The Manor is situated 2 miles north of junction 4A of the M3 between Farnborough and Yateley in Hampshire, England and is situated in 38 hectares of grounds.^[1] The house was the birthplace of the British diplomat Sir Reginald Hoare, and passed to the War Department in the 1930s, initially for the Senior Wing of the nearby Staff College, Camberley and has been used for the last 20 years or so as the Officers' Mess of No 3 Royal School of Military Engineering at Gibraltar Barracks, which are located on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road. One of the main features is a 600 metre Wellingtonia tree avenue, which was shown off to good effect in the 1969 movie Mosquito Squadron, where the manor house played the part of a French château used as a prisoner of war camp and factory for the V-1 flying bomb. The Manor was also used as a location in the 2007 Victorian fantasy movie Stardust, starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.^[2]

As of December 2008, there are plans as part of the RSME-PPP project with Holdfast consortium for major works on the Gibraltar Barracks site, including a new officers' mess. The MoD intend to partially fund the project by the eventual sale of the Manor.

References

1. ^ MoD Film Locations
2. ^ Lights Camera Action! MOD provides movie backdrops

External links

• Lights Camera Action! MOD provides movie backdrops
• Holdfast Consortium