Dean is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in Spelsbury

Spelsbury

Spelsbury is a village and civil parish about north of Charlbury and about southeast of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Spelsbury stands on a narrow hill between the Coldron and Taston brooks overlooking the River Evenlode and the ancient Wychwood Forest to the north.-History:The toponym is...

 civil parish, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Charlbury

Charlbury

Charlbury is a small town and civil parish in the Evenlode valley, about north of Witney in West Oxfordshire. It is on the edge of the Wychwood forest and the Cotswolds.-Place name:The origin of the town's toponym is obscure...

 and 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southeast of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Its toponym

Toponymy

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 derives from the fact that it located between the valleys of the Coldron Brook, and one of its tributaries.

The Hawk Stone

Hawk Stone

The Hawk Stone is a neolithic standing stone just north of the hamlet of Dean, Oxfordshire, England.The name either derives from its shape, being like a hawk, or is a corruption of the word 'hoar' meaning 'old'....

, about 0.5 miles (804.7 m) north of Dean, is a Neolithic standing stone

Standing stone

Standing stones, orthostats, liths, or more commonly megaliths are solitary stones set vertically in the ground and come in many different varieties....

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Dean is the home of Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington

Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington

Peter Selwyn Gummer, Baron Chadlington FCIPR FIoD FCinstM FRSA is an English businessman.-Early life and education:Gummer was born on 24 August 1942 to Selwyn Gummer, a Church of England priest, and his wife Margaret Mason. Gummer has two brothers; John Gummer, Baron Deben, former Chairman of the...

 and the constituency home of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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 David Cameron

David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

. It was also the home of the family of Ronnie Barker

Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George "Ronnie" Barker, OBE was a British actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman...

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