Horndean
HORNDEAN, a village and post-town, in the parish and union of Catherington, hundred of Finch-Dean, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 8 miles (S. S. W.) from Petersfield. This thriving village is pleasantly situated on the road from Portsmouth to London; the scenery is beautifully diversified, and in the neighbourhood are several handsome seats. A national school was built in 1827.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.