DEAN (WEST), a parish in the hundred of WESTBOURN-and-SINGLETON, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from Midhurst, containing 622 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £6. 12., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of S. Harrison, Esq, The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.