The pleasant Buckinghamshire village of Chearsley was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as Cerdeslai, a variation on the Anglo-Saxon Word meaning "Cerdic's Clearing" thus commemorating the ancient King Cerdric, no less, who became the first King of Wessex in 519. Overlooking the village green, close to where the four main roads into clearsley meet, the Bell Inn is everything that a village pub should be - an attractive, traditional building complete with a perfectly kept thatched roof over colourwashed rendered walls.
They may be some dispute as to the age of the Bell. Though definitely traced as early as the seventeenth century, the current owners proudly claim it to be some three hundred years older. What ever its origins, tradition still plays a significant part in the running og this delightful establishment.