Anstey is referred to as a Gateway to Charnwood Forest. These are the combination of traditional English village (by owning thatched bungalow & its village green) & an industrial town (sustaining numbers of 19th century hose manufacturing plant, many of which are then nowadays existence sour into flat).

History

Illustrious retiring Anstey residents include Ned Lud (machine-wrecker, whose name was appropriated per Luddites), & Snooker streaming video player and commentator Willie Thorne.

Shopping

There is a fresh Co-op supermarket in in Cropston Road. A more supermarket, Alldays, shut down within 2004 fallowing existence taken all over per CoOp. More shops, which are then mostly centered in & as much as A Nook, include: Hairdressers Barrie Stephen Hair (a 1 per Doctor's parking area???) Bakers Coombes Paulas Pantry (Paulas is as well the coffeehouse) Greengrocer - Johnsons Butcher - Tills DIY - Harris' DIY Banking HSBC Nationwide National Westminster Pharmacy - Gordon Davis Off Licence Londis A Local (once Threshers) Others Forget-us-myosotis scorpiodes gifts Delicatessen in the nook (delicatessan shop) A Signal Pack (railway system) Thrower Carpeting & Kitchens Broughtons Ironmongery & Interiors (+ cafe - easily worth the visit!) Anstey Car Centre Travel Agent

There are likewise various more shops.

Pubs and Eating Out

Anstey has plenty of chance for even require away or dine in food, ranging from either Fish & Chips across Chinese & Indian to traditional English teashop.

There are quaternary taphouse, which are then tons placed inside a quarter of the mile of every more, in Bradgate Road or even in The Nook at the prevent of Bradgate Road. If your family begin from either A Nook, & hike higher Bradgate Road you may pass the two in that sequentially:-

A Coach & Horses (aka A Coach) A Old Hare & Hounds (aka A Hare & Hounds, A Hare) A Plough A Crown

Religion

There are likewise the kind of CofE, Baptist, UR & Methodist churches. A parish church get on Bradgate Road.

Education

Latimer Primary School, Latimer Street Woolden Hill Primary School Anstey Martin High School, Hyperlink Road

University student attend Brookvale at Groby or Longslade Community College at Birstall.

The Village

A traditional english bungalow & big houses of Bradgate Road vary into terraced houses in a old industrial locality, so modern suburbia retired towards Hyperlink Road, in which the Anstey Martin school may be encountered. Good off a Nook is Latimer primary school, named when Bishop Latimer.

A Rothley Brook flows through the village on its way to the River Soar, & there are 2 ancient bridges (a Packhorse Bridge and King William's Bridge) & an old Water Mill.

Local Area

Nearby Glenfield is the home of Leicestershire county council, & all the shops & facilities of the city may be noticed astir Deuce miles away around Leicester. Hotel accommodation can likewise exist as encountered inside Glenfield, at a Gynsills Hotel & A Brant Inn.

Bradgate Park, childhood home of Lady Jane Grey stretches above the village, between them neighboring villages of Newtown Linford and Cropston. For conveyance, Anstey is served by regular bus company to Leicester, Glenfield and Loughborough, and the Beaumont Leys Searching Centre (all about a mile away) in which there is a Tesco Hypermarket, when well as Smiths, Argos, Wilkinsons, Boots & numerous more large title shops. By road, Anstey is upright off a A46 Leicester Western Bypass, which provides the convenient link to the M1 Southbound to London, with a A50 providing access to the M1 North.

The Supernatural

Anstey & circumferent metropolitan area has been mentioned around many texts all about Ley Lines. Anstey has the standing stone and a place called A Lays, which mark the path towards Bradgate Park's Old John.

See Also
Leicester Glenfield, Leicestershire Newtown Linford Groby Cropston Ley Lines