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| East Sheen | |
|---|---|
 The Triangle and Upper Richmond Road | |
  East Sheen 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 | TQ205753 |
| 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 | |
East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London[2] in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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.
Sheen Lane runs south from the junction of Mortlake High Street and Lower Richmond Road, over the level crossing at Mortlake station and the crossroads at Upper Richmond Road West, and up the hill to East Sheen Gate.
- ^ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine Office for National Statistics
- ^ A City of Villages: Promoting a sustainable future for London's suburbs (PDF). Greater London Authority. August 2002. ISBN 1-85261-393-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b "Barnes, Mortlake and Sheen". Visit Richmond. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ "East Sheen Milestone". Milestones. Waymarking.com. 20 February 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2014.