[2][3][4] According to the 2011 census the civil parish, which has an area of 15.85 square kilometres (6.12 sq mi), had a population of 552.

It is bounded by the civil parishes of Buttermere, Combe, Linkenholt, Hurstbourne Tarrant, Tangley, Chute, and Tidcombe and Fosbury.

[4][5] In the village there is The George pub and the Millennium Hall which is used for a variety of community events and services and for private hire.

The village is served by the Vernham Dean Gillum's Church of England Primary School and the Little Fingers Pre-school.

[6][7][8][9] There is a legend that Chute Causeway is haunted by a guilt-ridden pastor of Vernham Dean who left his villagers to die of the Black Death in 1665.