Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire

Description
Norton-juxta-Twycross, a village, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The village stands 1 mile E of the boundary with Warwickshire, 1 1/2 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.