LEVERINGTON, a parish in the hundred of WisBEACH,
Isle-of-ELY, county of CAMBRIDGE, 2 miles
(N.W.) from Wisbeach, containing, with the chapelry of
Parson-Drove, 1523 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Bishop
of Ely, rated in the king's books at £25. 0. 7. The
church is dedicated to St. Leonard and St. John the
Baptist. There is a school for teaching poor children,
endowed with £20 per annum, paid out of the produce
of lands supposed to have belonged to the hospital of
St. John the Baptist, which existed here before the Reformation.
At Fitton, in this parish, there was, in 1389,
a chantry chapel, dedicated to St. Mary.