Straddling the Hampshire and Wiltshire border, and lying along the valley of the River Dun,  the village of East Dean is rather small with only about 50 houses. But it is the church that is the most interesting feature here, the other was that the pub used to boast of a bar that was in both counties!! The Parish Church is dedicated to St Winifred and the original church was built around 700 years ago and hardly any trace of it can be found but there is evidence in the church of an even earlier church being here as can be seen by  the rounded head of a Norman window and a Norman piscina. Some of the walls are said to be over a thousand years old and the church is recorded in the Domesday Survey

St Winifreds Church

There are some rather nice oak benches in the nave and you enter by a door that has a huge ring and a large wood lock which is set in the oak timbers and one of the first things you notice is a small gallery that is said to be from the 17th century and an octagonal 500 year old font.

The village Pub "The Brewers"