Minety Timeline

Iron Age currency bars found to the north west of Upper Minety date from this time

Roman brick and tile kiln built. Found in the 20th century near to the boundary with Crudwell

Ethelwulf, King of the West Saxons, granted Minety - a 5 hide estate - to Malmesbury Abbey

Minety accounted for 3, 778 acres of the 31, 293 acres of Braydon Forest

Benefice and advowson of church granted to the archdeacon of Wiltshire

Malmesbury Abbey surrendered Minety Rectory to the bishops of Salisbury

A pottery kiln built at Lower Moor

A group of local men were excommunicated

Cirencester Abbey's tenants had six and a half yardlands of arable land at Minety

48 householders are taxpayers

Church built; chancel screen carving in the church date from this time

Cirencester Abbey dissolved and Minety estate passed to Henry VIII

Estate passed from Henry VIII to Edmund Bridges

Minety fell outside of Braydon Forest for the first time

Pulpit installed at St Leonard's

Cannon shot marks from the Civil War can be seen in the walls of the church

Minety Manor built. Thought to have been built for Edward Pleydell

Church registers began

There were 16 people in the parish who were recorded as being non-conformist

Brass chandelier in St Leonard's made

Cricklade to Malmesbury road was turnpiked

Minety House passed to Henry Maskelyne

Swillbrook and Stert Farms sold by Richard Hippesley Coxe to Robert Maskleyne

165 acres of land transferred to Ashton Keynes. This land was part of South Moor in the north east of the parish

Askew Bridge House and Tellings Farmhouse built

Elizabeth Cove's house was licensed for private worship

Common Farm, South Farm and New House Farm all built on Minety Common; £71 spent on a parish workhouse and garden

Minety moved from Gloucestershire to Wiltshire

Paupers began to be sent to the union workhouse in Malmesbury

A Strict Baptist chapel built

Minety station opened

Railway line and station become part of the Great Western Railway; Minety transferred to the Malmesbury hundred

Postal services started; Minety's Rectory estate passed from Salisbury diocese to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; school built to the south of the church

The Railway Hotel (now known as the Vale of the White Horse) was built near to the station

Henry Hibberd bought Braydon Hall estate

Henry Hibberd, resident of Braydon Hall, founded the Wiltshire and Gloucester Agricultural Distillery Company

Primitive Methodist chapel built

Hibberd's distillery enterprise failed, but gave its name to Distillery meadows, the current Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Reserve

Parish became part of Malmesbury Rural District

Silver Street School was built, to cater for children in Lower Minety because of the railway

Cricklade to Malmesbury road disturnpiked

95 acres of land transferred from Oaksey parish to Minety; E.E. Taylor started Taylors and Son, the printers on Silver Street

Much of St Leonard's Church restored

Extra classroom was added to Silver Street School

Minety Manor remodelled by William Oliver in a Gothic style. New wing added

Station re-named as Minety and Ashton Keynes Station

During renovation of church tower, remains of an Anglo Saxon cross were found

Flisteridge Woods were badly affected during the war by the need to cut down timber because of shortages; 95 men from Minety served in World War One

Primitive Methodist chapel restored

Burial grounds at church enlarged

There was an \"ankle competition\" during the summer show at Braydon Hall

Wooden village hall opened by Cecil Gouldsmith of Minety House

Telephone services connected to Minety

A warehouse built at the station

Mains water connected to Minety

Minety Observer Corps formed

180 evacuees for the local area arrived at Minety station. Some of these children were on their way to Crudwell and other parts of North Wiltshire

A dummy aerodrome was built on The Moor, north of the Ashton Keynes road; search lights were erected in Minety Park

The search light group left Minety and were deployed to the south coast

Two bombs dropped and exploded between Minety and Ashton Keynes, near to the decoy airfield; search light camp changed into Prisoner of War camp. It was between Minety Common and the main Malmesbury to Cricklade road; the Malmesbury to Cricklade road was shut at Dog Trap Lane. Workshops were built here and vehicles stored.

Electricity arrived at Braydon Hall; it was the first building connected in the parish

Rest of the parish is connected to electricity

Older pupils were transferred to Silver Street School

Post Office opened in Silver Street

School became a National School; sixth bell added to the bell tower at the church

Station closed to goods' traffic

Station closed to passenger traffic

Main sewage connected to the parish

New Village Hall opened

St Leonard's School shut

Minety Church of England School built at Sawyers Hill

Deliveries by a fishmonger stopped

Minety Playing Field Association founded; parish became part of North Wiltshire District

Deliveries by a butcher stopped

Land to the south of Derry Brook was transferred to parish of Cricklade

Silver Street School shut, infant classes had up until this years still been taken there. They were replaced by mobile classrooms on the Sawyers Hill site; sports pavilion built at the Playing Fields

Post Office in Silver Street shut; the Red Lion was re-named The Turnpike and Minety House renamed Minety Park

'We are Minety' was the response when the council asked about any division between Upper and Lower Minety

The Old Inn in Upper Minety shut and became a private house while the garage at Minety cross roads closed

A new school hall built at Minety C. of E. School

Post Office in Upper Minety closed and became a private residence