NORTON-juxta-TWYCROSS, a parish in the hundred of SPARKENHOE, county of LEICESTER, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from Market-Bosworth, containing, with the chapelry of Bilstone, 502 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 14, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. William Whiston, the celebrated divine, was born- here in 1667, during the in-, cumbency of his father.