COVINGTON, a parish in the hundred of LEIGHTONSTONE, county of HUNTINGDON, 3¼ miles (W.N.W.) from Kimbolton, containing 139 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £10.1.8., and in the patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is dedicated to All Saints.

This extract is from "Samuel Lewis Topographical Gazeetter - 1831"