Three Shire Stone

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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) (grid reference NY276027)
• Three Shire Stone - Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire/Northamptonshire (grid reference TL046705) (the stone actually lists Huntingdonshire later incorporated into Cambridgeshire)
• Three Shire Stones - Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (grid reference ST796700) (also the location of a neolithic burial chamber)
• Three Shire Stones - Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (grid reference SP457524) (location 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) Former nineteenth century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire. Cut down in 1904. Commemorated in name of current road.^[1]
• Three Shire Heads - Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near Flash (grid reference 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 (grid reference SP911560)

[edit] See 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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