Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sheen, East and West

Sheen, East and West, 2 hamlets, Mortlake par., Surrey, near Kichmond. Sheen (or Richmond) Palace, supposed to have been founded by Edward NI., has left only a stone gateway; of the priory established at West Sheen in 1414 there are no remains.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "2 hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mortlake CP/Ch       Surrey AncC
Place: Sheen

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