LEIGHTON, a parish in the Wellington division
of the hundred of BRADFORD (South), county of SALOP,
5 miles (N. by W.) from Much Wenlock, containing
375 inhabitants. The living is' a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at
£7. 12. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty. Miss Maddocks was patroness in
1816. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.