ANSTEY, a parish in the hundred of EDWINSTREE,
county of HERTFORD, 3 miles (S.E.) from Barkway, containing
440 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese of London,
rated in the Icing's books at £21. 13. 4., and in the patronage
of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College,
Cambridge. The church is a cruciform edifice, with a
central tower, 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.