page_title: Anstey, Leicestershire
section_title: Ley lines
hierarchical_section_title: Anstey, Leicestershire / The Village / Ley lines
caption_attribution_description: Standing stone at Anstey, Leicestershire
context_page_description: Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, England, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was 6,528 at the 2011 census. 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 and an industrial town which is made up mostly of a number of small estates, both council and private which are intertwined, often with no clear border.
context_section_description: Anstey and surrounding area have been mentioned in several texts about ley lines. Anstey has a standing stone and a place called The Leys, which marks the route of the Bradgate Ley, which runs between a notch in the hill near Old John in Bradgate Park, and Oadby.
caption: Standing stone, Anstey
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