Dean Prior, Devon

Description
Dean Prior, a parish in Devonshire, on the verge of Dartmoor, near the river Dart, 1 1/2 mile from Buckfastleigh station on the G.W.R., and 6 miles NW of Totnes. Post town, and money order and telegraph office, Buckfastleigh. Acreage, 4136 ; population, 287. The manor belonged to Plympton Priory, passed to the Gileses and the Yardes, and belongs now to Lord Churston. Dean Court, a Tudor edifice, now a farmhouse, was the manorial mansion and the residence of the poet Herrick, who held the parochial living, and wrote hene most of his " Hesperides." Dean Burn Vale is a strikingly picturesque glen, with some fine waterfalls. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £300. Patron, Lord Churston. The church was rebuilt, excepting the tower, in 1835.