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 - Cumberland/Lancashire/Westmorland (grid reference NY276027)
- Three Shire Stone - Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire (grid reference TL046705)
- 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 Head - 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)
See also
- No Man's Heath with a Four Shire Stone (allegedly)
- Four shire stone where Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire once met
- Three-Farthing Stone in The Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
- Tripoint - a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet
- List of tripoints of English counties, listing ceremonial and historic county tripoints
- Quadripoint - a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet
References
- ↑ 'Old Smethwick', 11 December 1948
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