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Norton-Juxta-Twycross (Holy Trinity)

NORTON-JUXTA-TWYCROSS (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Market-Bosworth, hundred of Sparkenhoe, S. division of the county of Leicester, 6½ miles (W. N. W.) from Market-Bosworth; containing, with the chapelry of Bilstone, 526 inhabitants, of whom 400 are in the township of Norton. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £14, and in the gift of the Crown; income, £273. William Whiston, the celebrated divine and mathematician, was born here in 1667, during the incumbency of his father.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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