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
 * Three Shire Stone – Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire
 * Three Shire Stones (Bath and North East Somerset) – Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire (also the site of a neolithic burial chamber)
 * Three Shire Stones – Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire : site of three marker stones until World War II, now part of Three Shire Farm
 * 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
 * Three Shire Head – Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near 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, Greater Manchester is situated on the west bank of the River Tame adjacent to the Yorkshire/Lancashire/Cheshire historical tripoint