LEVERTON (NORTH), a parish in the North-clay
division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of
NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (E. by N.) from East Retford,
containing 300 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Prebendary of North Leverton in the Collegiate Church
of Southwell, rated in the king's books at £5, and endowed
with £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated
to St. Martin. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The river Trent, separating the counties
of Nottingham and Lincoln, passes by the parish.