Twycross

Coordinates: 52°38′28″N 1°30′11″W / 52.641°N 1.503°W / 52.641; -1.503

Twycross
Twycross  Twycross shown within Leicestershire
District	Hinckley and Bosworth
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Bosworth
List of places: UK • England • Leicestershire

Twycross is a small village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England on the A444 road. Parts of it are called Norton juxta — Latin for 'next to' — Twycross^[1] or Little Twycross. The civil parish includes the hamlet called Little Orton, as well as Twycross Zoo, and the selective, private Twycross House School.

Administratively, Twycross forms part of the Hinckley and Bosworth district. It is named 'Twycross' because its centre lies at the intersection of three roads. The A444 connects it to Burton-on-Trent and Coventry and the B4116/B4114 to Birmingham.

It also contains the Twycross Cricket Club, a village club with a 1st and 2nd XI who play in the Leicestershire Senior League. It also has a Sunday XI which plays many friendly games throughout the season. Twycross also has great youth sides at under 10s, 11s, 13s, and 15s level, each providing for the future of the men's team. The 1st team XI play regularly in the Premier division, whilst the 2nd team XI play in division 3, which hosts a 1st team and 2nd teams while also holding a Sunday friendly team. It has a youth set-up with under-15, under-13, and under-11 teams.

Twycross is also home to world-famous video game developer Rare, who has developed games and series such as GoldenEye 007, Viva Piñata, Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct, Conker, Perfect Dark, and many of the Donkey Kong games from as early as Donkey Kong Country in 1994 to as recent as Diddy Kong Racing DS in 2007 (despite them having become a Microsoft first-party since 2003, when their contract with Nintendo was bought out).

The church of St. James contains the oldest stained glass in England. Originally from Sainte-Chapelle, Saint-Denis, and Le Mans Cathedral. The earliest glass is c1145 from Saint-Denis, the panels having been presented to William IV who gave them to Earl Howe, who got the glazier Thomas Willement to arrange and installed them the church during its restoration in the 1840s.

References

1. ^ nortonjuxtatwycross.co.uk

External links

Media related to Twycross at Wikimedia Commons