Three Shire Stone
# 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 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
* Threeshire Wood – Buckinghamshire/Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire (grid reference SP911560)
* 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
