Leverington (St. Leonard and St. John the Baptist)

LEVERINGTON (St. Leonard and St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 2 miles (N. W.) from the town of Wisbech; containing, with the chapelry of Parson-Drove, 1954 inhabitants. It comprises 7871 acres. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £25. 0. 7½.; net income, £2099; patron, the Bishop of Ely. A school is endowed with £40 per annum from the town lands. An act for inclosing waste was passed in 1841.