Anstey, a parish in Wilts, under Whitesheet Hill, 2 miles S by E of Tisbury station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 SSE of Hindon. Post town, Tisbury, under Salisbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1382 ; population of the civil parish, 247; of the ecclesiastical, 262. A preceptory of the Hospitallers was founded here in 1210; and a barn belonging to it still remains. The living is a donative in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is the oldest in the diocese, has an ancient font, and is in good condition, having been completely restored in 1878. Dr Richard Zouch, judge of the Court of Admiralty in the reign of Charles I., was a native.
