TWYCROSS, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE,
county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from
Market-Bosworth,' containing 373 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage
of OrtoQ on the Hill, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St.
James. Twycross is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy
of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court
of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the
recovery of debts tinder 40s. Charles Jennings, in
1773, bequeathed £333. 6. S., directing the interest to
be applied in support of a school for poor children.