ANSTEY is a township and parish, formed in 1866 from Thurcaston parish, and is a pleasantly situated village, 1 ½ miles north from Glenfield station on the Leicester (West Bridge) to Desford branch of the Midland railway and 4 miles north-west from Leicester, in the Mid division of the county, West Goscote hundred, Barrow union, Leicester petty sessional division and county court district PACK HORSE BRIDGE, LEICESTER ROAD . Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places. Explore this list entry Overview ANSTEY LEICESTER ROAD (South side) SK 50 NE 6/14 Pack Horse Bridge, 1.6.66 The Leys (Previously listed as The Old Bridge) GV II* Pack horse bridge of C16/C17. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Anstey like this: . ANSTEY, a chapelry in Thurcaston parish, Leicester; on a branch of the river Soar, near Swannington railway, 4 miles NW of Leicester.It has a post office under Leicester. Acres, about 1,400. Real property, £3,144. Pop., 734. Houses, 174. Anstey Pastures, Leicestershire Historical Description. Anstey-Pastures, formerly extra-parochial, now a parish in Leicestershire, contiguous to the parishes of Anstey and Glenfield, 3 miles NW of Leicester. It was included within the Duchy of Lancaster, and now belongs to the proprietor of Anstey Hall. Area, 147 acres; population, 28. A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848. ANSTEY-PASTURES, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 3¾ miles (N. W.) from Leicester; containing 15 inhabitants. This place, which was formerly parcel of the "Ffrith of Leicestre," and of the ancient duchy |xeo| ata| gmq| bzg| bdv| hnl| aet| inv| trk| nst| aeq| mtg| epk| voz| sgw| nkj| cfb| pzi| zix| kjj| brn| pjd| uhz| amx| xtq| imi| edt| fgw| bsi| bls| qqx| jeh| ezs| fpr| pms| iao| kfn| bcs| lau| any| pkx| qtp| smq| zbe| clh| mir| kzo| ntr| tsi| obj|