Sheen is a village and civil parish in north-east Staffordshire, England. The parish is about north to south and about east to west. The eastern boundary is the River Dove (the boundary with Derbyshire), and the western boundary is the River Manifold. There is a north-west to south-east ridge forming Sheen Moor; the village of Sheen, on a road running north–south through the parish, is near the southern end of the ridge. The highest point, at , is Sheen Hill. Hulme End, near the southern boundary, has height ; Knowsley, near the northern boundary, has height . There is a steep escarpment to the River Dove in the east, and the ground falls less steeply to the River Manifold in the west. There is scattered settlement throughout the parish. The parish was described in 1851: "The face of the country is here wild and romantic, but the soil about the village is fertile and well enclosed." History The name Sheen may come from Old English sceon: shelters (perhaps herdsmen's shelters); or Old English sceone: beautiful. Prehistoric There are three Bronze Age bowl barrows. Brund Low, near crossroads north of the hamlet of Brund, is about high and about across; excavations in the 19th century found human cremations and flint and bronze artifacts. Rye Low, a short distance east of Brund, is about high and about across; excavations found deposits of vegetation and insects, also cremated bones and flint artifacts. A barrow near buildings south of Townend is about high and about across; cremations and flint artifacts have been found. Church There was a chapel at Sheen by 1185. The present Church of St Luke at Sheen, presumably on the same site, is a Grade II* listed building. Its origins are of the 14th century; it was mostly rebuilt between 1828 and 1832, using stone from Sheen Hill. The church was later described as "a well meant but wholly unecclesiastical structure". A. J. B. Hope offered to rebuild it at his own expense; the new church, designed by C. W. Burleigh and later by William Butterfield, was consecrated in 1852. A. J. B. Hope In about 1850 Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, known as A. J. B. Hope, inherited the Beresford estate, which was mostly in Alstonefield, extending into Sheen. He wanted to make Sheen "the Athens of the Moorlands". He rebuilt the church, and built a new house for