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Sheen, Staffordshire history
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Prehistoric
There are three Bronze Age bowl barrows near crossroads 640 metres (700 yd) north of the hamlet of Brund . Brund Low is about 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) high and about 40 metres (130 ft) across; excavations in the 19th century found human cremations and flint and bronze artifacts . Rye Low, near buildings south of Townend is about 0.8 metres (2.6ft) high .
Church
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 .
A. J. B. Hope
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, built a new house for the incumbent to the design of William Butterfield .
Buildings
At Knowsley in the north of the parish is the shaft of a stone cross, 15th-century or later . It was re-erected near its former site in 1897 .
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