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 village of Buckfastleigh. Dean Prior has a church called St George Martyr, Dean Prior, where the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick was vicar from 1629 to 1646 and 1660 to 1674, and is buried in an unmarked grave.