Little Dean, Gloucestershire

Description
Dean, Little, or Little Dean, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the east verge of Dean Forest, 2 miles NW of Newnham, and 2 miles from Cinderford station on Severn and Wye, Severn Bridge and Monmouth railway. It has a post and money order office under Newnham; telegraph office, Cinderford. The parish comprises 718 acres; population, 843. Coal and iron ore are worked. There is a Roman encampment near the village, from which a fine view of the "Horse-shoe" bend of the Severn, so extolled in Cowper's poems, may be seen. The camp is supposed to have been a British camp of observation before it fell into the hands of the Romans. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £185 with residence. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. The church is Perpendicular, and contains two monuments to the Pyrke family. There is a Congregational chapel.