An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Mortlake

 

MORTLAKE

"MORTLAKE, a parish in the W. division of the hundred of Brixton, county Surrey, 2 miles E. of Richmond, and the same distance S.E. of Brentwood. It has stations on the Windsor and Richmond and Thames Valley branches of the London and South-Western railway. It is situated on the S. bank of the river Thames, and on the road from London to Richmond, and includes part of Richmond park. " (There is more of this description).

"UPPER SHEEN, (and East Sheen) hamlets in the parish of Mortlake, western division of the hundred of Brixton, county Surrey, 2 miles E. of Richmond, and 7 S.W. from London. It is situated near the banks of the Thames, and on the Richmond branch of the South-Western railway. In the early part of the 15th century a monastery of Carthusian friars was founded here, in which Perkin Warbeck endeavoured to obtain an asylum. James IV. of Scotland was buried here. Upper Sheen has recently been formed into a separate ecclesiastical district.

The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of London. The church, called Christ Church, is a modern structure. The Independents have a chapel in Sheen-lane.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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