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|country = England
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|shire county = [[Surrey]]
|council = [[Richmond upon Thames LBC]]
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|population = 21,469 (2021)
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'''Richmond''' is a town in northern [[Surrey]], within the [[London]] built-up area. It has a population of around 21,500. It lies on the south banks of the [[River Thames]], around 9 miles from central [[London]] in [[Middlesex]]. Administratively, it is within, and the namesake of, the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]].
== Name ==
Richmond was named in the early 16th century after [[Henry VII]]'s ancestral honour of [[Richmond, Yorkshire|Richmond]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. Prior to this, the area was known as ''Shene'' (recorded variously as ''Sceon'' and ''Sheen''), which is from an Old English word for "shelters". This name survives is the adjacent districts of North Sheen and East Sheen.
[[Category:Settlements in Surrey]]