Chearsley

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Coordinates: 51°47′25″N 0°57′42″W / 51.7902°N 0.9617°W / 51.7902; -0.9617

Chearsley
Chearsley is located in Buckinghamshire
Chearsley

 Chearsley shown within Buckinghamshire
Population 541 [1]
OS grid reference SP715105
Civil parish Chearsley
District Aylesbury Vale
Shire county Buckinghamshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Aylesbury
Postcode district HP18
Dialling code 01844
Police Thames Valley
Fire Buckinghamshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Aylesbury
List of places: UK • England • Buckinghamshire

Chearsley is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated about seven miles south west of Aylesbury, and about four miles north of Thame, in Oxfordshire.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'Cerdic's clearing' or 'Cerdic's lea'. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Cerdeslai. It has been suggested that the village is the place mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Cerdicesleah, where King Cerdic and his son Cynric defeated the Britons in 527.

The village was originally a hamlet in the nearby parish of Crendon, though was established as a parish in its own right by the Bishop of Lincoln in 1458.

The village was used as a location in the television series Midsomer Murders – ep. Country Matters, ITV.

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