CHARLEY, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the western division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 4 miles (S. W.byW.) from Loughborough, containing 42 inhabitants. The ancient forest of Charley, or Charnwood, twenty miles in circuit, was disforested soon after the Conquest; its privileges were restored by Henry II., but finally abolished by Henry III. A society of eremites, of the order of St. Augustine, settled here in the reign of Henry II., by the favour of Robert Blanchmains, Earl of Leicester; but in the time of Edward II. it was united to one at Ulvescroft; where a priory of regular canons, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, continued until the dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £101. 3. 10.