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Anston is a civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, formally known as North and South Anston. The parish of Anston consists of the settlements of North Anston and South Anston, divided by the Anston Brook.
South Anston was an ancient parish in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire. GENUKI website It was a large parish, also known as Anston cum Membris, which also included North Anston and the township of Woodsetts. When civil parishes were created in 1866, Woodsetts became a separate civil parish and the remaining part of the parish became the civil parish of North and South Anston. Vision of Britain website In 1974 the parish was transferred to the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in the new county of South Yorkshire.
The original interest for the area (beyond Anston's agricultural uses) was the sandy " Anstone" Magnesian Limestone, but the real growth in Anston's population was more due to the sinking of the Dinnington Main Colliery in the early 20th century.
Anston railway station opened on 20 May 1912 and closed on 2 December 1929.
There are currently three pubs in North Anston: the Little Mester on Nursery Road, the Cutler on Woodsetts Road, and Anston Club on Main Street.
North Anston is home to the Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and Falconry Centre, a popular attraction seeing around 80,000 visitors every year. It is also home to the limestone gorge of Anston Stones Wood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Anston stones wood stretches across the border of South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. The wood is believed to be part of a medieval smuggling route. Evidence of this has been found in the valley an example of this is Dead Man's Cave at Anston Gorge, a large cave carved out of the limestone used for hiding goods. An 1867 excavation of Dead Man's Cave pointed to Palaeolithic occupation, through the discovery of flint tools and a reindeer toe bone. "Anston: South Anston" ; Rotherhamweb.co.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2012
To the south of the village lies the Chesterfield Canal. It was from a dock just to the south of Dog Kennel Lane that stone taken from quarries in South Anston was transported to London for the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster following the fire in the 1830s. The blocks of stone were taken by horse-drawn sled to the canal, then taken down to West Stockwith where they were transferred to sailing barges for the journey to London.Yorkshire Stone to London by Christine Richardson, , 36 pages, Published by Richlow, in 2007, The story of the transportation of stone to Westminster for the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament.
Anston is part of the Anston and Woodsetts ward of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. It is represented by Councillors; Tim Baum-Dixon (Conservative), Drew Tarmey (Liberal Democrat) and John Blackham (Conservative).
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