PRN13273 The settlement of Leverton is first documented in Domesday Book in 1086. It was a soke of Drayton (which is now part of Swineshead parish) and was land of Count Alan of Brittany. There was a minimum population of sixty-five people at this time and a church is also recorded. {1} Leverton is probably an Old English name meaning 'farmstead or village where rushes, reeds or yellow irises grow'. {2} In 1563 the Diocese returns record forty-eight households in Leverton. {3} In the early eighteenth century fifty families are recorded in Leverton. {4} In 1801 the population was 339 individuals, by 1851 this had risen to 790. {5}