Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about West Anstey, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to West Anstey in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Yeo Mill	hamlet	Bartholomew

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Anstey like this:

ANSTEY (West), a parish in South Molton district, Devon; on the river Yeo, contiguous to East Anstey. Post Town, Dulverton under Tiverton. Acres, 3,008 Real property, £1,845. Pop., 299. Houses, 50. The surface is hilly; and the property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £132.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is pretty good. Charities, £7.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to West Anstey by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

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Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
East Anstey	0	3
Molland	0	2
Hawkridge	0	2
Dulverton	2	2
Knowstone	0	2
Withypool	0	2
Brushford	0	2
Twitchen	0	2
Oakford	0	2
Winsford	0	2
Bishops Nympton	0	2
Hightleigh	0	2
Creacombe	0	2
Exbridge	0	2
Rose Ash	0	2
Rackenford	0	2
Bury	0	2
Exton	0	2
Stoodleigh	0	2
Exford	0	2