HEVERSHAM, a parish in KENDAL ward, county
of WESTMORLAND, comprising the chapelries of Crosthwaite
with Lyth and Stainton, and the townships of
Hincaster, Levens, Milnthorpe with Heversham, Preston-
Richard, and Sedgwick, and containing, including th.e
whole of Levens, a small portion of which township is
in Kendal parish, 3996 inhabitants, of which number,
1401 are in the joint township of Milnthorpe with Heversham,
1 mile (N.) from Milnthorpe. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese
of Chester, rated in the king's books at £36. 13. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Master arid Fellows of
Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated
to St. Peter, is a fine edifice in the early style of English
architecture. The free grammar school was founded
in 1613, by Edward Wilson, Esq., who endowed it
with land now producing about £60 per annum, and
with two exhibitions to Queen's College, Oxford, one to
Trinity College, and one to Magdalene College, Cambridge;
attached to the school is a library, founded, in
1766, by the associates of Dr. Wray; and in 1824,
£267. 11. was subscribed to rebuild the school-room
and a residence,-for the master. The school is open to
all the boys of the parish, and no charge is made but "
for writing and arithmetic. This parish is bounded on
the north and on the west by the river Kent. The
learned Dr. Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, was a
native of this place.