BEARLEY, a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Stratford upon Avon, containing 230 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Wootton-Waven. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.