In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Norton Juxta Twycross like this:
NORTON-JUXTA-TWYCROSS, a village, a township, and a parish in Market-Bosworth district, Leicester. The village stands 1 mile E of the boundary with Warwick, 5¼ N E of Polesworth r. station, and 7 N by E of Atherstone; and has a post-office under Atherstone. The township includes the village, and comprises 2, 340 acres. ...
Real property, £3, 433. Pop., 335. Houses, 71. The parish contains also the township of Bilstone, and comprises 2, 910 acres. Real property, £4, 712. Pop., 451. Houses, 96. The manor belongs to Earl Howe. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £375.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, and has a tower and short spire. There are a national school, and charities £16. Whiston was a native, and his father was rector.
Norton Juxta Twycross through time
Norton Juxta Twycross is now part of Hinckley and Bosworth district. Click here for graphs and data of how Hinckley and Bosworth has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Norton Juxta Twycross itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Norton Juxta Twycross, in Hinckley and Bosworth and Leicestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11194
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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