Finchdean

Human settlement in England

Rowlands Castle

District

East Hampshire

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWATERLOOVILLEPostcode districtPO8Dialling code023Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Meon Valley

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

50°54′31″N 0°57′07″W / 50.90874°N 0.95185°W / 50.90874; -0.95185

Finchdean is a rural hamlet in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.^[1]^[2] It lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex border, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) east of Horndean.

The origin of the place-name is from the Old English word finc and denu meaning valley of the finch (or of a man called Finc); the place-name appears as Finchesdene in 1167.^[3] The village has a United Reformed Church in a building that was previously a stables before being converted to a chapel in 1830.^[4]

The nearest railway station is 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south of the village, at Rowlands Castle (where according to the Post Office the 2011 Census population was included).

Finchdean has retained its village pound.

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 197 Chichester & the South Downs (Bognor Regis & Arundel) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319231166.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780199609086.
^ O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. p. 359. ISBN 9780300225037.