Dean Prior is a village and civil parish near the A38 road, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England. It is located near the town of Buckfastleigh and north of South Brent. Dean Prior has a church called , where the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick was vicar from 1629 to 1646 and 1660 to 1674 and is buried in an unmarked grave. * Dean Forge and Dean Prior Garden Centre * Ordnance Survey map showing Dean Prior * Dean Prior parish population, 2001–2011