A Three Shire Stone is a monument marking the point where three
shire
Shire () is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking countries. It is generally synonymous with county (such as Cheshire and Worcestershire). British counties are among the oldes ...
s meet. The term is mostly used in
England
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.
Some notable Three Shire landmarks are:
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Three Shire Stone (Lake District)
The Three Shire Stone is a boundary stone that marks the location where the historic English counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland meet. The point is in the English Lake District at the summit of Wrynose Pass; latitude 54°25' Nort ...
– Cumberland/Lancashire/Westmorland ()
*Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire ()
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Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset) – Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire () (also the site of a
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
burial chamber)
*Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (): site of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm
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Three Shires Oak – Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire (), 500m south of actual county tripoint
*Three Shire Oak – Leicestershire/Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire ()
*Three Shires Oak – Staffordshire/Shropshire/Worcestershire (): 19th-century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire; cut down in 1904, commemorated in name of current road
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Three Shire Head – Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near
Flash
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* The Flash, several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
** Flash (Jay Garrick)
** Barry Allen
** Wally West, the first Kid Flash and third adult Flash ...
(): 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 ()
* Three Counties Road in
Mossley
Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper River Tame, Greater Manchester, Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, south-east of Oldham and east of Manchester.
The town grew ...
, Greater Manchester is situated on the west bank of the River Tame adjacent to the Yorkshire/Lancashire/Cheshire historical tripoint
See also
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Tripoint
A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geography, geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or Administrative division, subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints ...
, a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet
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List of tripoints of English counties
This article contains a list of tripoints of counties of England. A tripoint is the point at which three geographical regions meet.
Ceremonial county tripoints
The table contains a list of the 68 tripoints for the ceremonial counties of England ...
, listing ceremonial and historic county tripoints
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Three-Farthing Stone in The Shire of
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...
's legendarium
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Quadripoint
A quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct political territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners (disambiguatio ...
, a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet
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No Man's Heath, Warwickshire
No Man's Heath is an area of the civil parish of Newton Regis, in the North Warwickshire district, in the county of Warwickshire, England, about northeast of Tamworth. It is near the boundaries of four English counties: Derbyshire, Leicester ...
, possibly having a Four Shire Stone
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Four shire stone
The Four Shire Stone is a boundary marker that marks the point where the historic counties of England, English counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire once met. Since 1931, when the Worcestershire exclave of Ev ...
where Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire once met
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