Ansty is a small village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) east of Shaftesbury.

[3] Grave goods excavated from the burial include a diadem, palm cups, enamelled ironwork and an incense burner.

[4] The village developed in a sheltered valley where springs form a stream which flows north to join the Nadder at Tisbury.

The southern boundary of the parish follows approximately a ridge way across White Sheet Hill, which in the 17th century and earlier was part of the London to Exeter road.

After the Dissolution the property was granted to John Zouche, who was employed as bailiff for Thomas Seymour and went on to sit in Parliament for Hindon and then Shaftesbury.

His son Francis sold it in 1594 to Sir Matthew Arundell whose family seat was Wardour Castle, just over a mile west of Ansty village.

[8] Tisbury was added to the union in 1975,[9] and today the parish is in the area of the Nadder Valley team ministry, a grouping of sixteen rural churches.