diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 92c19cfcd5..073e7e5762 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ jsoup changelog
     as to preserve applicable settings, such as the Pretty Print settings.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/763>
 
+  * Improvement: added a convenience method Jsoup.parse(File).
+    <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1693>
+
   * Bugfix: boolean attribute names should be case-insensitive, but were not when the parser was configured to preserve
     case.
     <https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/1656>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Jsoup.java b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Jsoup.java
index f6cb7c73b0..677b347841 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Jsoup.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jsoup/Jsoup.java
@@ -142,12 +142,28 @@ public static Document parse(File file, @Nullable String charsetName, String bas
      @return sane HTML
 
      @throws IOException if the file could not be found, or read, or if the charsetName is invalid.
-     @see #parse(File, String, String)
+     @see #parse(File, String, String) parse(file, charset, baseUri)
      */
     public static Document parse(File file, @Nullable String charsetName) throws IOException {
         return DataUtil.load(file, charsetName, file.getAbsolutePath());
     }
 
+    /**
+     Parse the contents of a file as HTML. The location of the file is used as the base URI to qualify relative URLs.
+     The charset used to read the file will be determined by the byte-order-mark (BOM), or a {@code <meta charset>} tag,
+     or if neither is present, will be {@code UTF-8}.
+
+     <p>This is the equivalent of calling {@link #parse(File, String) parse(file, null)}</p>
+
+     @param file the file to load HTML from. Supports gzipped files (ending in .z or .gz).
+     @return sane HTML
+     @throws IOException if the file could not be found or read.
+     @see #parse(File, String, String) parse(file, charset, baseUri)
+     */
+    public static Document parse(File file) throws IOException {
+        return DataUtil.load(file, null, file.getAbsolutePath());
+    }
+
     /**
      Parse the contents of a file as HTML.
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ParseTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ParseTest.java
index f3c1dfcb4c..0bcbb8e87a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ParseTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jsoup/integration/ParseTest.java
@@ -229,6 +229,13 @@ public void testXwikiExpanded() throws IOException {
         assertEquals(wantHtml, doc.select("[data-id=userdirectory]").outerHtml());
     }
 
+    @Test public void testFileParseNoCharsetMethod() throws IOException {
+        File in = getFile("/htmltests/xwiki-1324.html.gz");
+        Document doc = Jsoup.parse(in);
+        assertEquals("XWiki Jetty HSQLDB 12.1-SNAPSHOT", doc.select("#xwikiplatformversion").text());
+    }
+
+
     public static File getFile(String resourceName) {
         try {
             URL resource = ParseTest.class.getResource(resourceName);