East Dean, Hampshire

East Dean is a civil parish and small village in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Romsey. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Dene", appears as "Estdena" in 1167, and as "Dune" in 1212.

East Dean was held with the priory and manor of Mottisfont by the Briwere family and later the Mill family. John Barker-Mill inherited East Dean House, a Grade II listed building, in 1835. He died childless and East Dean House was passed by his widow to her in-laws, the Curzons.

The village is on the right (south) bank of the River Dun. The former Salisbury and Southampton Canal followed the river valley, as does the railway which now forms the Salisbury-Southampton section of the Wessex Main Line.