South Croxton (traditionally pronounced "crow-sun" [ˈkroʊsən]) is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England.

The moated area to the north of the church formed part of a medieval manor enclosure and has yielded Saxon remains.

A considerable number of unlisted buildings are also of architectural interest, having "survived relatively unchanged over the last hundred years."

The group of older houses down School Lane once formed a separate hamlet called West Thorpe.

[7] Since the 1960s, the character of South Croxton has largely changed from a farming community into a dormitory suburb for Leicester.

[8] In 2000, a grant was obtained to clean up the Queniborough Brook at the bridge and to provide seating there and at the top of the hill.

Halfway up the hill, a little obelisk made of tiles produced by local children was placed to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002.

[5] There is a public footpath from Lowesby past the deserted medieval village of Baggrave to South Croxton.

The Anglican church of St John the Baptist is the only place of worship in the village, although there was at one time a Methodist congregation.

The church is built in the late Decorated style, of local honey-coloured Waltham ironstone and dates mainly from the early 14th century, when it replaced an earlier stone building probably from the Saxon period.

[12] "CROXTON (South), a parish in Barrow-upon-Soar district, Leicester; on an affluent of the river Wreak, 4 miles SSE of Brooksby r. station, and 7 SW of Melton-Mowbray.

1870-72][15] A book of descriptive and oral history, South Croxton: The Village on the Hill by Philip Snelders, was published in 2007 and reprinted in 2008.