SYRESHAM, a parish in the hundred of KING'S-SUTTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (N. E.) from Brackley, containing 725 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £ 13, and in the patronage of Sir S. C. Dormer, Knt, The church is dedicated to St. James. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Rev. George Hammond, in 1755, bequeathed the interest of £300 for teaching ten poor children, and, in augmentation of the master's salary, Conquest Jones, in 1773, left the interest of £100.