Chearsley, Buckinghamshire

Description
Chearsley, a small village and a parish in Bucks, near the river Thame, 4 miles NNE of Thame station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/2 WSW of Aylesbury, with a post office under Aylesbury; money order office, Long Crendon; telegraph office, Thame. Acreage, 942 ; population, 242, purely agricultural. Chearsley is the Cerdicesleagh of the Saxon chronicle, and was the scene of a defeat of the Britons by Cerdic and Cyndric. The village is intersected with trenches of that period. Bows and arrows have been dug up in recent times indicative of the site of the battle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £115 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Baptist chapel.