East Dean is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England.

The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath crosses the parish on the downs to the south of the village.

[citation needed] In AD 689, Nunna (Nothelm), King of the South Saxons, gave 20 hides of land at "Hugabeorgum and Dene" to Eadberht, Bishop of Selsey.

[citation needed] The remains of a small deserted Medieval settlement have been found in Eastdean Park.

[citation needed] On 19 October 2020, the Parish Council approved a flag for the East Dean village community, designed by Edward Hilary Davis.

[citation needed] The parish church of All Saints is at the north end of the village.

It is part of a united parish with the churches of the Blesséd Virgin Mary, Singleton and St Andrew, West Dean.

[15] On 17 June 1940 an RAF Transport Command Bristol Bombay aircraft crashed on high ground in the parish, killing all five members of its crew.

The aircraft was on approach to land at its base at RAF Tangmere, but the weather was poor and the plane hit a hill near East Dean.

[17] Pilot Officer Hedley Eric Large and the three aircraftmen/crewmen (Leonard Bradburn, Wilfred Arnol Harper, and Ernest Wragg) are interred in the parish churchyard of St Andrew, Tangmere.