A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SHEEN (West), a place in Mortlake parish, Surrey; to the W of East Sheen. A Carthusian monastery was founded here in 1414, by Henry V.; was the place where Perkin Warbeck sought refuge, and where James IV. of Scotland was buried; had revenues, at the dissolution, estimated at £963; and was restored by Queen Mary, butin little more than a year was totally dissolved.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mortlake CP/Ch Surrey AncC |
| Place names: | SHEEN | SHEEN WEST | WEST SHEEN |
| Place: | Sheen |
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