North Sheen
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place North Sheen is an area of London, England in the former Municipal Borough of Richmond (Surrey).<ref name="Mills">Template:Cite book</ref><ref group="nb">North Sheen was one of six wards in the Municipal Borough of Richmond (Surrey). {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was incorporated into Kew in 1965 when the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames was created.<ref name="Blomfield">Template:Cite book</ref>
Although North Sheen no longer officially exists as a place name, it survives as the name of a station. Being south of the A316 road, the station is in Richmond rather than Kew, and so was not actually in North Sheen. Kew also has North Sheen Bowling Club,<ref name="Bowling">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> North Sheen Cemetery<ref group="nb">North Sheen Cemetery (also known as “Fulham New Cemetery”) opened in 1909. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and North Sheen Recreation Ground.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
North Sheen, whose etymology is shared with East Sheen, formed a civil parish from 1894 to 1965.<ref name= Blomfield/> Historically, it formed part of the Mortlake parish and became part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Richmond in 1892.<ref name="VOB parish"/> Under the Local Government Act 1894, a new North Sheen parish was created from part of Mortlake,<ref name="VOB parish">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with the remainder of Mortlake then forming part of Barnes Urban District. The North Sheen parish covered an area of Template:Convert. In 1901 the population was 2,807 and in 1951 it was 7,429.<ref name="VOB pop">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
North Sheen was first marked on maps from 1904.<ref name="Mills"/> At that time it was mostly undeveloped, but by 1920 residential building was underway.<ref name="Mills"/>
In fictionEdit
A major section of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds takes place at Sheen, depicting with considerable detail the destruction caused there by Wells' Martian invaders.
See alsoEdit
- The Barn Church, Kew
- North Sheen Cemetery
- North Sheen railway station
- North Sheen Recreation Ground
- Holy Trinity Richmond
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External linksEdit
- Historical data: Housing in North Sheen
- Historical data: Population in North Sheen
- Historical boundary maps for North Sheen