East Dean, Gloucestershire
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East Dean is a small village in Gloucestershire, England, near West Dean and Littledean. Collectively, these villages, and the surrounding wood (Forest of Dean) were mentioned in the Domesday Book as Dene, and appear as Dena in 1130.[1]
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- The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.), p. 140.