CHEARSLEY, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Thame, containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and dio'cese of Lincoln, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. This parish is supposed to have been the scene of a battle which Cerdic and Cynric fought with the Britons, in 527, mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle as having occurred at Cerdicesleagh.