DEAN (EAST), a chapelry in the parish of MOTTISFONT, hundred of THORNGATE, Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 7 miles (N.W. by W.) from Romsey, containing 160 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the rectory of Mottisfont, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The Salisbury and Southampton canal passes through the parish.