Three Shire Stone
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 Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".)
- Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".)
- Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset) – Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) (also the site of a Neolithic burial chamber)
- Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".): site of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm
- Three Shires Oak – Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), 500m south of actual county tripoint
- Three Shire Oak – Leicestershire/Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".)
- Three Shires Oak – Staffordshire/Shropshire/Worcestershire (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".): 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 Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".): 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 Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".)
- 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
- 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