Norton Juxta Twycross

• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   
• The 1851 Census for Leicestershire has been indexed by the Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society. The whole index is available on microfiche. The society has also published it in print.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The church was built prior to 1640.
   
• The church spire was taken down in 1890 for safety reasons.
   
• The church seats 270.
   
• David P. HOWARD has a photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• The Anglican church at Twycross is dedicated to Saint James.
   
• The church dates from the 14th century.
   
• The church seats 150.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1583.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Sparkenhoe (first portion).
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here in 1881.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Market Bosworth sub-district of the Market Bosworth Registration District.
   

Twycross is a village and a parish which lie on the road from Atherstone to Ashby, 108 miles north of London, about 8 miles south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 5 miles west of Market Bosworth. The parish covers about 1,580 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A444 trunk road north out of Nuneaton.
   
• Mat FASCIONE has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   
• David P. HOWARD also has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   
• David P. HOWARD has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012. Stop in and ask to see a schedule of forthcoming events.
   
• There is a zoo to the south of the village, across the A444 trunk road.
   
• Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Sea Lions at the Zoo on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Norton Juxta Twycross to another place.

The village hall, which is owned by the villagers, was erected by Jack LAE (probably John LEE), a carpenter from the village, just after the end of the First World War in 1920, as a memorial to the men of Norton whose names are on a plaque inside the hall. The hall is on a slight rise on the north end of Main Street.

The village hall was rebuilt in 1994.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.

David P. HOWARD has a photograph of The Moores Arms on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.

These are the names associated with Moore's Inn in various directories:

Year	Person
1849	William MARSHALL, blacksmith
1863	Wm. MARSHALL, smith & vict.
1881	John MARSHALL
1892	Mrs. Catherine MARSHALL, blacksmith & v.
1912	John MARSHALL
1925	Joseph MARSHALL

• Twycross House was the residence of Vicount Frederick CURZON in 1912.
   
• Cliff House was the seat of William E. OAKELEY in 1881. It was built in the Swiss style, surrounded by lawn and having a good view of the countryside.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK324069 (Lat/Lon: 52.65886, -1.522428), Norton Juxta Twycross which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

There is a War Memorial brass inside the church to 4 men connected with the parish who fell in the Great War.

• The parish is in the ancient Sparkenhoe Hundred in the western division of the county.
   
• A detached part of Merevale, Warwickshire, was annexed to this parish in 1880.
   
• In April, 1935, a number of parishes had their boundaries "adjusted". Gopsall parish was abolished and merged with Twycross parish. Also, Norton parish was abolished and merged with Twycross, as was Orton on the Hill. All this added about 4,000 acres to the area administered by Twycross parish authorities.
   
• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016. Stop by the Hall, on the north side of the village, when it is open and ask to see the schedule of forth-coming events. The Hall is sometimes used for presentations on local history.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Sparkenhoe (Market Bosworth) petty session hearings each week, alternating between Hinckley and Market Bosworth.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Market Bosworth Poorlaw Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1841	319
1871	340
1881	354
1891	350
1901	317
1911	248
1921	276
1931	269
1961	745

• The Public Elementary School (National School) was endowed in 1765 by Charles JENNENS and built in 1822 to hold 80 children.
   
• The village school was closed in the 1940s.