Hawley was a tything and chapelry in Yateley parish. Minley was a tything in Yateley parish. By 1891 together they had become a civil parish with a population of 1,316.
Rev. Rufus Hawley (1741-1826) and his wife, Deborah Kent (1739-1798), had seven children. He was a minister in Avon, Connecticut. Descendants lived in Connecticut, Ohio and elsewhere.