St Michaels church, East Anstey (geograph 3217144)

East Anstey is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the North Devon district of

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

, England. The parish is located in an area which has been designated as an area of 'Great Landscape Value'. The village falls within the South Molton Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The village has a Grade II listed church, the Church of St Michael, which has a 15th-century tower and south porch but which was largely rebuilt in 1871. The name 'Anstey' is derived from the Old English word ‘an-stiga’ meaning ‘a hill pathway for one’.http://www.eastanstey.org.uk/, "East Anstey Parish Council" Retrieved 15 October 2014 East Anstey had a station on the old GWR Taunton - Barnstaple Victoria Road which closed in 1966. The station is now a private residence.

Notable residents

*Rev John Froude II (1777-1852), Vicar of Molland-cum-Knowstone, an extreme example of the "hunting parson".

References

External links

Genuki East Anstey page

East Anstey Parish web site
East Anstey Civil parishes in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub