Twycross is a small village and
civil parishIn England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and in some places the lowest tier of local government, below districts and counties. A civil parish can alternatively be known as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council; and in a limited number of...
in
LeicestershireLeicestershire or , abbreviation Leics.is a landlocked county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
on the
A444 roadThe A444 is a primary road running between Coventry and Burton on Trent in England.- Route :Starting on the A4600 Sky Blue Way in Coventry, the road heads north on a dual carriageway road, crossing the M6 at junction 3. It bypasses Bedworth to the west and heads into Nuneaton passing the George...
. Parts of it are called
Norton juxta —
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
for 'next to' —
Twycross or
Little Twycross. The civil parish includes the
hamletA hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community...
called
Little OrtonLittle Orton is a hamlet in the English county of Leicestershire.Little Orton is part of the civil parish of Twycross; it is located southwest of the main village being divided from it by the A444 road and Twycross Zoo....
, as well as
Twycross ZooTwycross Zoo is a large zoo near the village of Twycross in Leicestershire, close to the border of Warwickshire . The zoo was founded in 1963 by Molly Badham and Nathalie Evans. In 1972 it became a charitable trust . The zoo attracts around 500,000 visitors a year...
, and the selective, private Twycross House School.
Administratively, Twycross forms part of the
Hinckley and BosworthHinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in south-western Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Its only towns are Hinckley, Earl Shilton and Market Bosworth...
district. It is named 'Twycross' because its centre lies at the intersection of three roads.
Twycross is a small village and
civil parishIn England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and in some places the lowest tier of local government, below districts and counties. A civil parish can alternatively be known as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council; and in a limited number of...
in
LeicestershireLeicestershire or , abbreviation Leics.is a landlocked county in central England. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
on the
A444 roadThe A444 is a primary road running between Coventry and Burton on Trent in England.- Route :Starting on the A4600 Sky Blue Way in Coventry, the road heads north on a dual carriageway road, crossing the M6 at junction 3. It bypasses Bedworth to the west and heads into Nuneaton passing the George...
. Parts of it are called
Norton juxta —
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
for 'next to' —
Twycross or
Little Twycross. The civil parish includes the
hamletA hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community...
called
Little OrtonLittle Orton is a hamlet in the English county of Leicestershire.Little Orton is part of the civil parish of Twycross; it is located southwest of the main village being divided from it by the A444 road and Twycross Zoo....
, as well as
Twycross ZooTwycross Zoo is a large zoo near the village of Twycross in Leicestershire, close to the border of Warwickshire . The zoo was founded in 1963 by Molly Badham and Nathalie Evans. In 1972 it became a charitable trust . The zoo attracts around 500,000 visitors a year...
, and the selective, private Twycross House School.
Administratively, Twycross forms part of the
Hinckley and BosworthHinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in south-western Leicestershire, England, administered by Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council. Its only towns are Hinckley, Earl Shilton and Market Bosworth...
district. It is named 'Twycross' because its centre lies at the intersection of three roads. The A444 connects it to
Burton-on-TrentBurton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England. Its associated adjective is "Burtonian".Burton is best known for its brewing heritage...
and
CoventryCoventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham with a population of 300,848...
and the B4116/B4114 to
BirminghamBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. Birmingham is the second-most populous British city, with a population of 1,006,500 ....
.
It also contains the Twycross Cricket Club,Twycross Cricket Club is a friendly, family club with a 1st and 2nd XI who play in the Leicestershire senior league.It also have a sunday XI which play many friendly games throughout the season.
Twycross also have great youth sides at under 10's, 11's, 13's and 15's level. each providing for the future of the mens team.
The 1st team XI play regularly in the Premier division, whilst the 2nd team XI play in division 3.which hosts a 1st and 2nd team 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 developerA video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Sony's PlayStation 3, PSP, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, Nintendo DS, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Some...
Rare, who have developed games and series such as
GoldenEye 007GoldenEye 007 is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console, based on the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.The game received overwhelmingly positive reviews and sold over eight million copies...
,
Viva PiñataViva Piñata is a life simulation game developed by Rare, for the Xbox 360 video game console. The project was headed by Gregg Mayles and the team behind the Banjo-Kazooie series, based on an idea from Tim Stamper. Although rumors of the title circulated among fans for some time, Viva Piñata was...
, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker,
Perfect DarkPerfect Dark is a series of video games developed by Rare, novels written by Greg Rucka, and a comic book created by Eric Trautmann. The series is centered around Joanna Dark's battle with a megacorporation called dataDyne...
and many of the Donkey Kong games from as early as
Donkey Kong CountryDonkey Kong Country is a platform video game developed by Rare, featuring the character Donkey Kong. It was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. Following an intense marketing campaign, the original SNES version sold over 8 million copies...
in 1994 to as recent as Diddy Kong Racing DS in 2007. In the game
Banjo-KazooieBanjo-Kazooie is a platform and action-adventure video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo as the inaugural game in the Banjo-Kazooie series. It was released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64 and later re-released in 2008 for the Xbox Live Arcade.The game is set in the fictional location of...
, in Rusty Bucket Bay, the ship in port has the words "Twycross, England" written across the stern, and in another level, Mad Monster Mansion, the church is modeled after the local Twycross church.