Norton Juxta Twycross, usually known as simply “Norton” (or “Norton Juxta”), is a small village in Leicestershire, England. The Holy Trinity Church is part of the Appleby group. The village is included in the civil parish of Twycross.
The village has traditionally, and historically, been known as “Norton”: deriving from the Anglo-Saxon, meaning “North-Town”; with variable spellings including “Northton” and “Nortone”. The village, however, was also known for a brief period in the 17th century as “Hoggs Norton”. The village’s current name was acquired to differentiate the village from the several others in the county named Norton. “Juxta” is Latin for “near”, and Twycross is a small village approximately 2 miles southeast of Norton.
Located at the heart of the four counties Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire
Norton Juxta Twycross is in the Civil parish of Twycross: http://www.parish-council.com/twycross/ Our Local Authority District is Hinckley and Bosworth https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/ located in the Shire county of Leicestershire https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/ situated in the East Midlands region.
We are centrally located in easy access of:
Measham, Market Bosworth and Ashby de la Zouch. Tamworth offers edge of town shopping facilities at Ventura Park with other towns Nuneaton and Burton Trent offering a range of other services.
Our nearest rail services are Tamworth – which has both West Coast mainline providing service from the North West to London Euston and also Cross Country services which provides direct services from Edinburgh to Penzance as well as local services to Nottingham and Birmingham etc https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/stations/tamworth and Nuneaton is served by three railway lines: the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line, the Birmingham-Leicester-Peterborough line and the Nuneaton to Coventry branch linehttps://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/stations/nuneaton
We are approximately 18 mils or 20 mins drive from East Midlands airport https://www.eastmidlandsairport.com/ and 24 mile or 30 minutes’ drive from Birmingham Airport https://www.birminghamairport.co.uk/
Our catchment primary school is Congerstone Primary School https://www.congerstone.leics.sch.uk/ with other nearby options in Appleby Magna, Sir John Moore Primary School and Snarestone Primary School.
Our catchment secondary school is The Market Bosworth School 11 to 16 years https://www.tmbs.leics.sch.uk/. With 16-18 provision offered at Bosworth Academy and Ashby Grammar School alongside many further education college options.
There is also independent school provision at Twycross House School and at The Dixie Grammar School.
Situated at the heart of the four counties Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire. A rural small village surrounded by working farms and countryside we are close to the National Forest and the historic town of Market Bosworth. Norton Juxta Twycross is located just off the A444, which can be accessed via the A5 and the M42 junction 11, which is approximately 4 miles away. Follow the brown tourist attraction signs to Twycross Zoo from any major route and you will be able to find us close by.
A church has stood on this site since the 12th century and the church itself and graveyard give a sense of its role in the community. Recent renovations to the roof now means to church is again open. Services are listed in the Parish Magazine.
After the land was gifted to the village in 1952 a brand new hall was built in 1994 and opened in 1995. The hall is well equipped and is used for external hire but also as the central gathering point for social events for the village. Inside the hall stop and admire the tapestries depicting crests of families from the village created to commemorate the Millennium and more recently and addition which depicts the key landmarks.
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We are lucky to have a well-equipped play area which is suitable for small children to teens with basket swing, muti use activity frame, basketball net and goals.
The village benefits from a number of circular walks following public footpaths. Routes to Appleby Magna, Snarestone or crossing the old salt road to Austrey and beyond can be located using and ordnance survey map or walking app.
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