West Dean, West Sussex
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  West Dean shown within West Sussex |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| District | Chichester |
| Shire county | West Sussex |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Chichester |
| List of places: UK • England • West Sussex | |
- For the hamlet of West Dean in East Sussex see Cuckmere Valley
West Dean is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located 7.5 kilometres (5 miles) north of Chichester on the A286 road just west of Singleton. The parish includes the hamlets of ‘’’Binderton’’’ and ‘’’Chilgrove’’’.
The village set in the valley of the River Lavant in the South Downs has an Anglican parish church dedicated to Saint Andrew. The church and most of the houses are built of flint, usually with brick quoins and window dressings. There is one pub, the Selsey Arms. The village is dominated by West Dean House, a large mansion built of flint which now houses West Dean College, an arts and crafts school. The house, built by the Peachey family in 1804, was later bought by the James family and was the home of Edward James, who donated it to a charitable trust in 1964. The gardens around the house are open to the public and have well preserved Victorian walled gardens and glasshouses. There is also a park and arboretum.
The parish has a land area of 2484.4hectares (6136 acres). In the 2001 census 425 people lived in 177 households, of whom 248 were economically active. The village is on the route of the Monarch's Way long distance footpath.
[edit] References
- The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
[edit] See also
- West Dean College
- West Dean Gardens
- West Dean Primary School
- Sussex Barn Gallery at West Dean
- West Dean Woods nature reserve
