Vernham Dean, sometimes known as Vernhams Dean, is a
village and
civil parish in the
Test Valley district of
Hampshire, England, just east of the
Wiltshire border and south of the
Berkshire
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border. The village is about north of
Andover
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and miles south of
Hungerford in Berkshire.
According to the 2011 census the
civil parish, which has an area of , had a population of 552. It is bounded by the civil parishes of
Buttermere,
Combe
A combe (; also spelled coombe or coomb and, in place names, comb) can refer either to a steep, narrow valley, or to a small valley or large hollow on the side of a hill; in any case, it is often understood simply to mean a small valley through wh ...
,
Linkenholt
Linkenholt is a village near Andover in Hampshire, England with about 40 inhabitants. It is in the civil Parish of Faccombe. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as ''Linchehou'', when it was part of the land of the Abbey of St Peter of Glouceste ...
,
Hurstbourne Tarrant
Hurstbourne Tarrant is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies to the north of the county in the Test Valley.
The Tarrant part of the name originates from 1226, when the village was given to the Cistercian Tarrant nunnery. The ...
,
Tangley
Tangley is a village in the English county of Hampshire. Tangley is situated north of the old market town of Andover and the village of Charlton, Hampshire.
Tangley Parish covers an area of and has just under 600 residents in three villages, Ta ...
,
Chute, and
Tidcombe and Fosbury
Tidcombe and Fosbury is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Marlborough and south of Hungerford, Berkshire. It includes the three small settlements of Fosbury, Tidcombe, and Hippenscombe and lies on the eastern edge of th ...
.
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In the village there is The George pub and the Millennium Hall which is used for a variety of community events and services and for private hire. The village is served by the Vernham Dean Gillum's Church of England Primary School and the Little Fingers Pre-school.
There is a legend that Chute Causeway is haunted by a guilt-ridden pastor of Vernham Dean who left his villagers to die of the ]Black Death
The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causi ...
in 1665.
References
External links
*
Village website
Villages in Hampshire
Civil parishes in Hampshire
Test Valley
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