Norton Juxta Twycross

The Rectory Norton

The village school closed in the 1940s but the Post Office still remained open until only a few years ago.

Village Hall Demolition

Our new village hall was built in 1994 after years of hard work fundraising by a hard core of villagers  Full gallery

The village once had a windmill and also a pinfold where stray animals were kept until the appropriate fee for their release was paid.

Hentons Tractors

The engines were manned by drivers who, in the summer months, drove Pat Collins’ fairground steam engines and during the winter months operated the threshing engines

Charles Jennens

Gopsall South wing

Charles Jennens died childless and left his estate to his niece, and it came by marriage to Penn Asheton Curzon whose son was created the First Lord Howe. The Second Lord Howe was MP for South Leicestershire from 1857 to 1870. Earl Howe built the school, the schoolhouse and the alms houses in Norton in 1839 with the majority of the village belonging to the Gopsall Estate.

Gopsall Hall Gallery

Englands Lost Country Houses - Gopsall Hall

Two early glebe terriers, from 1601 and 1606, provide us with the earliest descriptions of the old Norton parsonage house. Both describe the site of the parsonage with its attached “Homestall” or homestead:

lying between the common street over against the farm house on the east side and the orchard belonging to the … parsonage on the west . And between the church on the north and a backside or close belonging to the parsonage called the overclose on the south, containing an estimate two roods, with a further one rood for the garden and orchard