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West Dean, Wiltshire

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538: 475: 31: 47: 1344: 54: 232: 638:. He also owned the Norman Court Estate, a large area of woodland and farmland on both sides of the county border and centred on Norman Court House, an 18th-century country house just over the border in Hampshire. 445:. Dean House, which straddles the border with Hampshire, is a Grade II* listed former rectory from the late 17th century, enlarged in the 18th. A large 17th-century barn at Church Farm is also Grade II* listed. 272: 556:
Items transferred from the old church include three bells and the font bowl (probably 12th-century). Two 12th-century capitals form part of the support of the lectern. There is an
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The two manors became separate church parishes. The late 19th century saw the Wiltshire parish become West Dean civil parish, while the Hampshire parish became part of
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In the north of the present village, overlooking the river, is a mound around 53m in diameter and up to 2.9m high, which is the remains of a Norman
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The two ancient parishes each had a church. The parishes were united in 1474, with the Hampshire church of All Saints becoming a
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An early church stood to the northwest of the present village. Most of it was demolished in 1868, leaving only the
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The church of St Mary the Virgin was built in 1866 as a replacement for the earlier church. Its site, provided by
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was opened through the parish in 1802 or 1803 but was never completed as far as Salisbury; it closed in 1806. The
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The northern part of the village, extending south beyond the railway to Moody's Hill, was designated as a
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were united in 1971, and in 1983 the benefice of West Dean with East Grimstead was combined with that of
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building, in 1973 it was placed into the care of the Redundant Churches Fund which is now the
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From 1941 to 2003, chalk caverns under Dean Hill to the south of the village were used as a
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site straddles the present-day Wiltshire/Hampshire border. The village was mentioned in the
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of 1086, one in Hampshire and one in Wiltshire, both among the many holdings of
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were made in 1916–17. The church was designated as Grade II listed in 1987.
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chancel, and at the west end a timber bell-turret below a tiled spire.
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was anciently a chapelry of West Dean. The benefices of West Dean and
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which contains a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Much of the northern half of the parish is woodland, including
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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names
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railway was built through the village in 1847, with
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A 670:The geographic coordinates are from the 678: 642:(1826–1904) sold the estate in 1903 to 560:from the 13th or 14th centuries, and a 486:for munitions storage and maintenance. 288: 270: 226: 194: 170: 84: 27: 1231: 1229: 1227: 687:"Wiltshire Community History - Census" 634:, also an MP, and son of a partner in 854: 852: 717:Research records (formerly PastScape) 380:, about 7 miles (11 km) east of 254: 242: 230: 216: 204: 184: 152: 134: 116: 7: 1382:West Dean village and parish council 713:"Roman villa at West Dean (222998)" 384:and the same distance northwest of 1295:National Heritage List for England 1013:National Heritage List for England 935:National Heritage List for England 836:National Heritage List for England 810:National Heritage List for England 784:National Heritage List for England 14: 1144:. 15 February 1983. p. 2228. 653:, from 1588, who was chaplain to 622:Dean House was bought in 1618 by 478:Munitions leave the wartime depot 53: 1342: 1327:Dictionary of National Biography 52: 45: 29: 1330:. 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West Dean is located in Wiltshire
Wiltshire
OS grid reference
SU257273
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Wiltshire
Ceremonial county
Wiltshire
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SP5
Dialling code
Police
Wiltshire
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
Salisbury
westdeanvillage.co.uk
UK
England

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