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.

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.

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.

[6] East Sheen Ward borders the railway at Mortlake station, and includes a large slice of Richmond Park, extending south to Robin Hood Gate by the A3 road.

[8] The southern estate of Temple Grove, East Sheen, first belonged to Sir Abraham Cullen, who was created a baronet in 1661.

Before 1900, Mortlake developed a secular vestry to help administer poor relief, maintain roads, ditches and other affairs.

[10] In 1894, nearby North Sheen was created as a civil parish, being split off from Mortlake and remaining in the Municipal Borough of Richmond.

East Sheen concentrates its commercial area to the main through street: its long high street has transport/furniture/hardware shops, convenience services, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs[14] and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic hub for Mortlake of which East Sheen was once a manor.

Central to this street is The Triangle, a tree-lined traffic island with a war memorial and an old milestone[3] at the intersection of Upper Richmond Road West with Sheen Lane.

[16] All Saints was built on land bequeathed under the will of Major Shepherd-Cross, MP for Bolton who lived at nearby Palewell Lodge from 1896 until his death in 1913.