title: Three Shire Stone
text: # 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
  