A Three Shire Stone is a monument marking the point where three
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 ...
s meet. The term is mostly used in
England.
Some notable Three Shire landmarks are:
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Three Shire Stone (Lake District)
The Three Shire Stone is a boundary stone that marks the location where the historic English counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland meet. The point is in the English Lake District at the summit of Wrynose Pass; latitude 54°25' No ...
– Cumberland/Lancashire/Westmorland ()
*Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire ()
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Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset)
Batheaston is a village and civil parish east of the English city of Bath, on the north bank of the River Avon. The parish had a population of 2,735 in 2011. The northern area of the parish, on the road to St Catherine, is an area known as Nor ...
– Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire () (also the site of a neolithic burial chamber)
*Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (): site of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm
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Three Shires Oak
Whitwell is a village in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Whitwell Common) taken at the 2011 Census was 3,900.
Although Whitwell celebrated its 1,000th anniversary in the 'Whitwell 1000' celebrations of 1989, ...
– Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire (), 500m south of actual county tripoint
*Three Shire Oak – Leicestershire/Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire ()
*Three Shires Oak – Staffordshire/Shropshire/Worcestershire (): 19th-century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire; cut down in 1904, commemorated in name of current road
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Three Shire Head
Three Shire Heads (also known as Three Shires Head) is the point on Axe Edge Moor where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, at UK grid reference , or .
It is on the River Dane, which marks the Cheshire border in this area. On the ea ...
– Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near
Flash (): also known as Three Shire Stones, the former site of three stones marking the boundary and shown on John Speed's map of 1612
*Threeshire Wood – Buckinghamshire/Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire ()
* Three Counties Road in
Mossley, Greater Manchester is situated on the west bank of the River Tame adjacent to the Yorkshire/Lancashire/Cheshire historical tripoint
See also
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Tripoint, a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet
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List of tripoints of English counties
This article contains a list of tripoints of English counties. A tripoint is the point at which three geographical regions meet.
Ceremonial county tripoints
The table contains a list of the 68 tripoints for the ceremonial counties of England as ...
, listing ceremonial and historic county tripoints
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Three-Farthing Stone
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and other works. The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the ...
in The Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
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Quadripoint
A quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners. Several examples exist ...
, a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet
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No Man's Heath, Warwickshire
No Man's Heath is an area of North Warwickshire about northeast of Tamworth. It is near the boundaries of four English counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire. Nearby in the late 19th century were Netherseal Collier ...
, possibly having a Four Shire Stone
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Four shire stone where Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire once met
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