DEAN (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of ST-BRIAVELLS, county of GLOUCESTER, 1 mile (N.W.byN.) from Newnham, containing, with 123 persons resident in an adjoining extra-parochial district, 807 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the perpetual curacy of NeVraham, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester, endowed with £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Mayor and Corporation of Gloucester. The church is dedicated to St. Ethelbert. The village is situated on the verge of the Forest of Dean, in the neighbourhood of which there are considerable mines of coal and iron, in which, and in the manufacture of nails, the inhabitants are principally employed. It had formerly the privilege of a market, which is now disused, but the marketcross is still standing, having a low octangular roof spreading from a central shaft, and surmounted by a pinnacle with niches and statues. There are fairs for pedlary on Whit-Monday and November 26th. Dorothy Pyrke, in 1760, bequeathed an annuity of £4. 10. for teaching ten poor children.