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| Anstey | |
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 'Anstey - Gateway to Charnwood Forest' sign seen on entering the village | |
  Anstey Location within Leicestershire | |
| Area | 6.25 sq mi (16.2 km2) |
| Population | 9,000 (2011 Census) |
| • Density | 1,440/sq mi (560/km2) |
| OS grid reference | SK545085 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LEICESTER |
| Postcode district | LE7 |
| Dialling code | 0116 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, England, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was 9,000 at the 2021 census.[1] This figure is expected to increase due to the building of a new housing development off Groby Road. The village is separated from Leicester by the Rothley Brook, Castle Hill Park and the A46, and it borders the villages of Glenfield, Groby, Newtown Linford, Cropston and Thurcaston as well as the suburb of Beaumont Leys and Anstey Heights. To the north-west lies Bradgate Park.
Anstey is known as the Gateway to Charnwood Forest. It is a combination of traditional English village (with two village greens - the top green and bottom green) and an industrial town (with several 19th-century hosiery factories, many of which are now being turned into apartments) which is made up mostly of a number of small estates, both council and private which are intertwined, often with no clear border.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2016.