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).
^Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN9780199609086.
^O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. p. 359. ISBN9780300225037.