No Man's Heath is an area of the

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of Newton Regis, in the

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district, in the county of

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, England, about northeast of Tamworth. It is near the boundaries of four English counties:

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Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

, Warwickshire and

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. Nearby in the late 19th century were

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and Netherseal Hall. Today a small village exists here, also called No Man's Heath, which is the northernmost settlement in Warwickshire. No-Mans-Heath was formerly an extra-parochial tract, in 1858 No Mans Heath became a separate civil parish, on 24 March 1888 the parish was abolished and merged with Newton Regis. In 1881 the parish had a population of 70. The county boundary which used to divide the village between Leicestershire and Warwickshire has been re-drawn on 1 April 1965 to place the whole village in Warwickshire. The village has an

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called The Four Counties Spice; this used to be the village

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, called The Four Counties Inn. Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire meet about northwest of the village. Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire meet a further half-mile northwest. There is an ancient (probably

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n) stone, divided into four parts, which may mark the point where the four counties met before boundary adjustments.

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BBC Staffordshire
article about the Four Counties Inn, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:No Man's Heath Villages in Warwickshire Former civil parishes in Warwickshire Borough of North Warwickshire

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