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CHEARSLEY is a small parish and retired village in the hundred of Ashendon,
union of Aylesbury, from which town it is 7 miles S.W., and 4 N.E. from
Thame.
This place is supposed by some antiquarians to have been the Cerdicesleah of
the Saxon chronicle where Cerdic and Cynric defeated the Britons; at the
ntersection of the old trackways from Chilton, Crendon, Cuddlington, and
Winchendon, several skeletons have been dug up, which seem to confirm the
traditionary account of this being the site of the gallows erected by one of
the feudal lords of the place. The church is a neat stono edifice,
consisting of nave, chancel, and low tower, turreted at the south east
angle. In the interior, on the north side, is an ancient carved font. The
tower contains four bells. The living is a vicarage, value about �60 per
annum, in the gift of Captain Wendham; the Rev. Amos Hayton, who resides at
Thame, incumbent. The Baptists have a chapel here. In 1861 the population
was 287; acreage 1130.
Guy John, esq., Low Green farm
TRADERS.
Cooling Martha (Mrs), farmer
Geden Wm., farmer, Lower farm
Gregory John, shopkeeper and boot and shoemaker
Guy Thomas, farmer
Horton Thomas, beer retailer
Johnson William, Bell
Mew William, blacksmith
Moberly Samuel Edward, boot and shoemaker
Roadnight Richard, farmer
Rose Joseph, farmer
Smith William, parish clerk
Wilson Benjamin, White Horse
Letters through Aylesbury to Waddesdon, and thence by foot post