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The English folk legend of a shire oak, under the spreading limbs of which the ancient Anglo-Saxon open-air folkmoots and ''things'' were held,〔Charles Mosley, ''The Oak: its natural history, antiquity & folk-lore'', 1910.〕 is a feature of Merry England: "In olden times the rude hustings, with its noisy surging crowds, was the old popular mode of appeal to the people, voter and voteless, a remnant of Saxon times when men gathered under the shire-oak..."〔George Howell, ''One man, one vote'' (National Liberal Pamphlet, 15), in ''Foreign & Commonwealth Pamphlets'', 1880.〕 The Shire Oak legendarium has resulted in a number of toponyms in present-day England. Oaks were often markers where three shires came together, as "Three-shire Oaks" at some of the tripoints of England. In Essex, a venerable "shire oak" was identified at Kelvedon.〔K.A. Rodwell, ''The Prehistoric and Roman Settlement at Kelvedon, Essex'', 1988.〕 Shire Oak is a section of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in which county the Shire-Oak Colliery was excavated near Worksop. Shire Oak School is in Walsall Wood, West Midlands, where there is a Shire Oak Quarry and a Shire Oak Reservoir,〔(Shire Oak reservoir )〕 and there are numerous examples in England of a "Shire Oak Road" or "Shire Oak Street". Providing a suitably Anglophone toponym, Shire Oak is a neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas and Shireoak Drive is a road in Houston. == Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shire oak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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