Anstey, Hertfordshire Genealogy

England   Hertfordshire   Hertfordshire Parishes

Parish History
ANSTEY, a parish, in the union of Buntingford, hundred of Edwinstree, county of Hertford, 4 miles (N. E.) from Buntingford; containing 497 inhabitants. It is situated on the road to Cambridge through Barkway, and comprises 2051a. 3r. 11p. A fair is held on July 15th. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £21. 13. 4.; net income, £504; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge. Corn-rents were assigned to the rector under a private act in 1826, as a commutation in lieu of tithes. The church is a cruciform edifice, with a central tower surmounted by a short spire supported by Saxon arches, and is said to have been built from the ruins of a castle erected by Eustace, Earl of Boulogne, soon after the Conquest, traces of which are still visible.

From: Lewis,Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 58-62. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50756 Date accessed: 09 August 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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