DEAN-PRIOR, a parish in the hundred of STANBOROUGH, county of DEVON, 4 miles (S. s, w.) from. Ashburton, containing 561 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £21, and in the patronage of W. Y. Buller, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. George the Martyr.