East Sheen
Suburb of London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London[2] in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
East Sheen | |
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The Triangle and Upper Richmond Road | |
Location within Greater London | |
Area | 5.84 km2 (2.25 sq mi) |
Population | 10,348 (East Sheen ward 2011)[1] |
• Density | 1,772/km2 (4,590/sq mi) |
OS grid reference | TQ2075 |
London borough | |
Ceremonial county | Greater London |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LONDON |
Postcode district | SW14 |
Dialling code | 020 |
Police | Metropolitan |
Fire | London |
Ambulance | London |
UK Parliament | |
London Assembly | |
51.464°N 0.266°W / 51.464; -0.266 |
Its long high street has shops, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic hub for Mortlake of which East Sheen was once a manor. This commercial thoroughfare, well served by public transport, is the Upper Richmond Road West which connects Richmond to Putney. Central to this street is The Triangle, a traffic island with a war memorial and an old milestone[3] dating from 1751, marking the 10 miles (16 km) distance to Cornhill in the City of London.[4]
The main railway station serving the area, Mortlake, is centred 300 metres (980 ft) north of this. Sheen has a mixture of low-rise and mid-rise buildings and it has parks and open spaces including its share of Richmond Park, accessed via Sheen Gate; Palewell Common, which has a playground, playing fields, tennis courts and a pitch and putt course; and East Sheen Common which is owned by the National Trust[3] and leads into Bog Gate, another gate of Richmond Park.