SHEEN, a parish, with a village, in Leek district, Stafford; on the river Dove, 8½ miles W S W of Bakewell r. station. Post-town, Allstonefield, under Ashborne. Acres, 2, 790. Real property, £4, 246. Pop., 427. Houses, 87. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £63.* Patron, A. J. B. Hope, Esq. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1829. There is an endowed school with £13 a year.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))