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Anstey, Leicestershire

Historical Description

Anstey, a township and a parish formed in 1866, from Thurcaston parish, Leicester, on a branch of the river Soar, 4 miles NW of Leicester, and 1½ N from Glenfield station on the M.R. The parish has a post and telegraph office under Leicester. Acreage, 784; population, 1759. The manor belonged to Ulverscroft Abbey, and went to the Greys of Groby. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £200. The church was rebuilt in 1850, but retains an ancient tower. There are Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLeicestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishAnstey St. Mary 
HundredWest Goscote 
Poor Law unionBarrow-upon-Soar 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The parish registers date from the year 1556.

Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Anstey:

BaptismsBannsMarriagesBurials
1571-19161754-19401556-19311557-1967

Churches

Church of England

St. Mary (parish church)

The church of St. Mary is an edifice of rubble, granite and slate, with freestone dressings, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower, containing 8 bells, hung in 1906; there are monuments to the Martin family, and a memorial window erected in 1903 to Elliot John Norman Galer, of Anstey Frith; there is also a stained window in memory of the men connected with this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18; their names are inscribed on an oak tablet; a new organ was installed in 1926: the whole church, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1846, and affords 300 sittings.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Anstey from the following:


Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.


Maps

Online maps of Anstey are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online:

DistrictCharnwood
CountyLeicestershire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtLE7
Post TownLeicester

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