East Anstey

East Anstey is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. The parish is located in an area which has been designated as an area of 'Great Landscape Value'.^[1] The village falls within the South Molton Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes.^[2] 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.^[3]

The name 'Anstey' is derived from the Old English word ‘an-stiga’ meaning ‘a hill pathway for one’.^[4] East Anstey had a station on the old GWR Taunton - Barnstaple Victoria Road which closed in 1966. The station is now a private residence.

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

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• Genuki East Anstey page Archived 1 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• East Anstey Parish web site

51°01′N 3°37′W / 51.017°N 3.617°W / 51.017; -3.617

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