Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Norton-juxta-Twycross, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands 1 mile E of the boundary with Warwickshire, 1½ S of Snareston station on the Ashby and Nuneaton branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 7 miles N by E of Atherstone. Post town, Atherstone; money-order and telegraph office, Twycross. The parish contains also the township of Bilstone. It comprises 2571 acres; population, 342; population of the ecclesiastical parish, 362. The manor belongs to Earl Howe. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower. The tower was formerly surmounted by a short spire, but in 1890, when the church was restored, the spire was taken down. Whiston was a native, and his father was rector.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Leicestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Norton-Juxta-Twycross Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Sparkenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Market-Bosworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in association with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, have the following parish records online for Norton juxta Twycross:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1686-1876 | 1778-1940 | 1687-1930 | 1686-1988 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Norton Juxta Twycross from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Norton-Juxta-Twycross (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Norton Juxta Twycross are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Leicestershire newspapers online: