NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ansty

Ansty is a village and civil parish in the Rugby borough of Warwickshire with a population of 318 (2001 census). The village is actually located just outside Coventry and was historically part of the County of Coventry. The village is near the M6 and M69 motorways, the Oxford Canal also passes through the village.

Named after the village is the Ansty Rolls-Royce engineering works, located just south of the village.

Ansty is part of Alton, in the county of Hampshire. The settlement lies in the North-Eastern part of the town.

Categories: UK geography stubs | Villages in Hampshire | Villages in Warwickshire

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The City of Coventry: The outlying parts of Coventry: Ansty \| British History Online (4537 words)
	The ancient parish of Ansty lay four miles north-east of Coventry; its area was 1,015 acres in 1891.
	In 1086 and earlier Ansty, with Foleshill, was one of the estates of the Countess Godiva.
	Ansty has had a curious historical relationship with the neighbouring village of Shilton and, to a lesser extent, with that of Barnacle.

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