Anstey or Ansty, a village and a parish in Warwickshire, on the Oxford Canal, near the river Sow and Shilton station on the Trent Valley branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 5 miles NE of Coventry, under which the parish has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Brinklow. Acreage, 1023 ; population of the civil parish, 127 ; of the ecclesiastical, 477. The living is a vicarage united with that of Shilton, in the diocese of Worcester; net value, £256. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient Perpendicular edifice with an embattled western tower, which has a spire erected to the memory of Major-General Adams, who fell at Inkerman. Ansty Hall is the chief residence.