VERNHAM-DEAN, a parish in the hundred of
PASTROW, Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
8 miles (N. by W.) from Andover, containing
638 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
annexed to the vicarage of Hurstbourn-Tarrant, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The church
occupies a lonely and romantic situation, in the middle
of a wood. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. The parish is within the jurisdiction of
the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday,
for the recovery of debts to any amount.