shire Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand. It is generally synonymous with county. It was first used in Wessex from the beginn ...

is a type of regional division in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations. Shire may also refer to:

Places

UK

* Four Shire Stone, where four English counties once met each other * Shire Brook, in South Yorkshire, England * Shire Country Park, a park south of Birmingham, England * The Shires, a collective term for the counties of England ending in shire or rural England in general; see

US

* Shires of Virginia, local government units in the U.S. state * The Shire or New Hampshire, informal designation of the U.S. state

Other

* Shire, Ethiopia, a town and a district in Tigray region *

Shire, Mawal Shire is a village in India, situated in the Mawal taluka of Pune district in the state of Maharashtra. It encompasses an area of . Administration The village is administrated by a sarpanch, an elected representative who leads a gram panchaya ...

, a village in Mawal taluka, Pune district, Maharashtra, India * Shire Highlands, a plateau in southern Malawi east of the Shire River * Shire River, a river in Malawi and Mozambique * Apostolic Vicariate of Shire, a Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction in what was then Nyasaland Protectorate (now Malawi) * The Shire or Sutherland Shire, a suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia

Buildings

* Shire Hall, Monmouth, Wales, a building * Shire Hall, Newport, Wales, a building

Enterprises

* Shire Books, a British publisher of books on history, heritage and antiques * Shire Foods, a manufacturer of pies, pasties, and sausage rolls based in Warwickshire, England * Shire (pharmaceutical company), a British speciality pharmaceuticals company

Literature

* The Shire, a region in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * ''The Shires'', a 1974 poetry collection by

Donald Davie Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley, Y ...

Music

The Shires (duo) The Shires are a British country music duo composed of singer-songwriters Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes. Earle sings harmony vocals, plays piano and guitar, and Rhodes is lead singer. The duo formed in 2013 and released their debut album ''Bra ...

, a British country music duo * ''The Shire'' (soundtrack), part of the soundtrack of ''The Fellowship of the Ring''

Names

Shire (name) Shire ( so, Shire) is a traditional Somali name. Given name * Shire Haji Farah, the current Minister of Finance of the Puntland region of Somalia. *Shire Jama Ahmed, was a Somali linguist who is credited with having devised a unique Latin scri ...

, a traditional Somali name, including a list of people with the name *

Shires (surname) Shires is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amanda Shires (born 1982), American singer and violinist *Art Shires (1906–1967), American baseball player *Dana Shires (born 1932), Doctor, co-inventor of Gatorade Gatorade is ...

, including a list of people with the name

Shopping centres

* The Shires, former name of the English shopping centre now known as

Highcross Leicester Highcross Leicester is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. It was opened as The Shires in 1991 to supplement the Haymarket Shopping Centre, also since re-developed. It was built on a central location within the city centre on Eastgates and ...

* The Shires Shopping Centre, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

Other uses

Battle of Shire (1936) The Battle of Shire (Italian: ''Battaglia dello Shirè'') was fought on the northern front of what was known as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. This battle consisted of attacks and counterattacks by Italian forces under Marshal of Italy Pietro ...

, a battle of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War *

Battle of Shire (2022) Between 14–18 October 2022, Ethiopian troops aided by Eritrean forces launched an offensive into Shire, in the separatist Tigray region. While Shire had been at the forefront of the conflict since 2020, the October 2022 offensive towards the ...

, a battle of the Tigray War * East Stirlingshire F.C. or the Shire, a Scottish football club * Shire horse, a large breed of draft horse * ''The Shire'' (TV series), an Australian reality television series