A Three Shire Stone is a monument marking the point where three shires meet. The term is mostly used in England.
Some notable Three Shire landmarks are:
- Three Shire Stone (Lake District) – Cumberland/Lancashire/Westmorland (grid reference NY276027)
- Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire (grid reference TL046705)
- Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset) – Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (grid reference ST796700) (also the site of a neolithic burial chamber)
- Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (grid reference SP457524): site of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm
- Three Shires Oak – Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire (grid reference SK533789), 500m south of actual county tripoint
- Three Shire Oak – Leicestershire/Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire (grid reference SK821430)
- Three Shires Oak – Staffordshire/Shropshire/Worcestershire (grid reference SP017866): 19th-century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire; cut down in 1904, commemorated in name of current road
- Three Shire Head – Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near Flash (grid reference SK009685): 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 (grid reference SP911560)
- 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
edit- Tripoint, a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet
- List of tripoints of English counties, listing ceremonial and historic county tripoints
- Three-Farthing Stone in The Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
- Quadripoint, a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet
- No Man's Heath, Warwickshire, possibly having a Four Shire Stone
- Four shire stone where Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire once met
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