East Dean became a township in 1844 and abolished as a civil parish on 1 April 1953.

[1] The Forest of Dean was an extra-parochial area in the St Briavels hundred of Gloucestershire.

[2] For poor relief, East Dean was grouped into the Westbury-on-Severn Poor Law Union and was included in the Westbury-on-Severn rural sanitary district.

[3] In 1935 a new civil parish of Lydbrook was created from part of its area and transferred to West Dean Rural District.

Part of the former area was also transferred to the existing parishes of Awre, Littledean and Mitcheldean.