ANSTON (NORTH-and-SOUTH), a parish in the
southern division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL,
West riding of the county of YORK, 6
miles (W. N. W.) from Worksop, containing 776 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to
the prebend of Laughton en le Morthen, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Chancellor in the Cathedral Church
of York, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £1400
parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated to St.
James. Nails and starch are manufactured in this
parish, and there is some business done in malt. Here
is a small endowed school.