Finchdean
Coordinates: 50°54′31″N 0°57′07″W / 50.90874°N 0.95185°W
Finchdean is a 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 nearest railway station is 1.1 miles (1.8 km) south of the village, at Rowlands Castle.
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.
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