LEVERTON (SOUTH), a parish in the North-clay
division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
5 miles (E.) from East Retford, containing,
with the chapelry of Cottam, 374 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and
diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Dean of Lincoln. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The river Trent
runs through the parish. A free grammar school was
founded, in 1691, by John Simpson, Esq., and endowed
with a rent-charge of £20, and a house and
garden for the master.