Vernham Dean
| Vernham Dean | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 George Inn at Vernham Dean | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU341566 |
| Location: | 51°18’27"N, 1°30’43"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 552 (2011) |
| Post town: | Andover |
| Postcode: | SP11 |
| Dialling code: | 01264 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Test Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North West Hampshire |
Vernham Dean, sometimes known as Vernhams Dean,[1] is a village in Hampshire, amongst the Hampshire Downs: it is in the north-west of the county just east of the Wiltshire border (and the long southernmost finger of Berkshire intruding through it). The village is about nine miles north of Andover and nine miles south of Hungerford, the latter in Berkshire.
The 2011 census recorded a parish population of 552. Around it are other villages of the Downs: Combe, Linkenholt, Hurstbourne Tarrant, Tangley, Buttermere (Wiltshire), and Chute (Wiltshire).
The village has one pub, The George
There is a village hall, the Millennium Hall.
Local legend
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 in 1665.[2]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 4 pp 329-331: Parishes: Vernhams Dean (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "Vernham Dean - Mysterious Britain & Ireland". Mysterious Britain & Ireland. http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/hampshire/hauntings/vernham-dean.html.