Anstey

Anstey, Alton
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Alton
Hampshire
SU7240
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XXXV.7
Anstey
otherwise: Hanstige, 1086; Anestiga, 1157
refce: Coates 1989
ANSTEY, manor in Alton
Following Gelling (1984: 63-4), this is Old English 'anstiga, anstig'='amalgamation of two (or more) rising paths in a col', though Gelling admits it is difficult to justify in this particular case. It depends how one views the medieval importance of the roads that fan out from Alton and from Cuckoo's Corner, east of Anstey. The older view was that the element meant 'single file path'.
old map
 Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, hamlet - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.51)
(OG51SU74.jpg)
domesday
 Hanstige
Listed in Domesday Book
- Neteham Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (1.4)
TERRA REGIS ... Ipse rex ten. HANSTIGE . Eddid regina tenuit ...
domesday
 Hanstige
Listed in Domesday Book
- Neteham Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
refce: Moody 1862 (Domesday)
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001