Astley Village

Coordinates: 53°39′40″N 2°38′38″W / 53.661°N 2.644°W / 53.661; -2.644

Astley Village is a civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, covering a suburb of Chorley. According to the 2001 census it had a population(2001) of 3,329, reducing to 3,005 at the 2011 Census.

History

It was a purpose built village, constructed in the 1970s.

Community

Astley Village has become well known due to Chorleys Astley Park, hosting the prestigious "Royal Lancashire Show" for a number of years. The village is roughly half a mile away from the nearest Tesco, Chorley town centre and the M61 being slightly further. It is serviced by a regular bus route, the Chorley circular, every 10 minutes. Long Croft Meadow, backs onto Chorley hospital, and the main road through the village is Chancery road... The village is by-passed via West Way, a link Road built in 1983-4 to take traffic off the busy Chancery road...

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Astley, Warwickshire

Coordinates: 52°30′07″N 1°32′35″W / 52.502°N 1.543°W / 52.502; -1.543

Astley is a village and parish within the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 219, reducing slightly to 218 at the 2011 census.

Astley is Knebly in George Eliot's Mr Gilfil's Love Story. Eliot's parents were married in the church.

St Mary the Virgin

The parish church was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Astley in 1343. An Anglo-Saxon carving of a sundial from an earlier church was preserved in the tower. Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset was entombed in the church in 1530. The present church dates from another rebuild in 1617 by the Chamberlayne family. It is mainly the chancel of the 1343 building and the original east window incorporated into the tower. Preserved in the church are effigies of the Grey family, eighteen choir stalls painted with images of the prophets and apostles and, on the ceiling, 21 heraldic shields of Midlands families.

Astley Castle