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 NY276027)
Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire (grid reference TL046705)
Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset) – Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (grid reference ST796700) (also the site of a neolithic burial chamber)
Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire (grid reference SP457524): site 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): 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 SK009685): also known as Three Shire Stones, the former site of three stones marking the boundary and shown on John Speed's map of 1612
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
A ThreeShireStone is a monument marking the point where three shires meet. The term is mostly used in England. Some notable ThreeShire landmarks are:...
divided into three "ridings". The Three-Farthing Stone marked the approximate centre of the Shire. It was inspired by the Four ShireStone near Moreton-in-Marsh...
Bowfell-Crinkle Crags massif. At the top of the Wrynose Pass is the ThreeShireStone, marking the meeting point of the historic counties of Cumberland...
boundaries of Worcestershire, only three of the counties meet at the stone. The Four ShireStone is not a single stone, but a nine-foot high monument, built...
roadside on the top of the hill (grid reference ST796700) rest the ThreeShireStones – three vertical blocks of limestone with a large cap – which mark where...
Band and up to the summit of Swirl How. The course then drops to the ThreeShireStone at the top of the Wrynose Pass, the meeting point of the historic...
river. It rises at a point 1289 feet (393 m) above sea level near the ThreeShireStone at the highest point of Wrynose Pass (grid reference NY277028) in...
Located at the edge of "Threeshire Wood". Marked by a "ThreeShireStone" Location of the "Four ShireStone" monument, marking the location of a former quadripoint...
Wrynose Pass by following the Right of Way starting close to the ThreeShireStone and heading in a northwesterly direction. The route takes in the summits...
Westmorland to the northeast (the point where the three counties met is marked by the ThreeShireStone at the head of the Duddon). North Lonsdale is also...
uplands. The Hundred has an irregular, oval figure, stretching from the threeshirestone, above Flash, southward to Uttoxeter, a distance of 25 miles, and...
This Is Wiltshire. Retrieved 20 February 2020. Historic England. "ThreeShireStones (1156410)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 November...
"Esk Hause" at NY234083 with an elevation 722 metres (2,369 ft) (near a stone shelter). Rossett Pass is then crossed. The route was used for taking smuggled...
hinterland to the north of the Avon, before meeting Wiltshire at the ThreeShireStones on the Fosse Way at Batheaston. Somerton took over from Ilchester...
independent Thain of the Shire, who farmed at Whitwell near the Three Farthing Stone in the Tookland, and his wife Eglantine Banks. He had three older sisters,...
Age tribe who inhabited the area. The final element is the English word shire. As Britain's smallest historic county, it is often nicknamed "The Wee County"...
region called the Shire, the homeland of the hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth. Some also live in a region east of the Shire, Bree-land, where...
today), are used in several regions of Jutland, for example in Medelsom shire, the diocese of Viborg etc. ... and stand for the sight in the springtime...
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