Three Shire Stone

Three Shire Stone

A Three Shire Stone is a marker point where three counties meet. The term is used in the United Kingdom.

Some notable Three Shire landmarks are:

*Three Shire Stone (Lake District) (gbmapping|NY276027)
*Three Shire Stone - Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire (gbmapping|TL046705) (the stone actually lists Huntingdonshire later incorporated into Cambridgeshire)
*Three Shire Stones - Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (gbmapping|ST796700) (also the location of a neolithic burial chamber)
*Three Shire Stones - Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (gbmapping|SP457524) (location of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm)
*Three Shires Oak - Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire (gbmapping|SK533789) (500m south of actual county tripoint)
*Three Shire Oak - Leicestershire/Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire (gbmapping|SK821430)
*Three Shires Oak - Staffordshire/Shropshire/Worcestershire (gbmapping|SP017866) Former nineteenth century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire. Cut down in 1904. Commemorated in name of current road. ['Old Smethwick', 11 December 1948]
*Three Shire Heads - Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near Flash (gbmapping|SK009685) (also known as Three Shire Stones, the former location of three stones marking the boundary and shown on John Speed's map of 1612)
*Threeshire Wood - Buckinghamshire/Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire (gbmapping|SP911560)

ee also

*No Man's Heath with a Four Shire Stone (allegedly)
*Three-Farthing Stone in J. R. R. Tolkien's the Shire
*Tripoint - a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet
*Quadripoint - a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet

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