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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 - Cumberland/Lancashire/Westmorland () *Three Shire Stone - Bedfordshire/Huntingdonshire/Northamptonshire () *Three Shire Stones - Somerset/Gloucestershire/Wiltshire () (also the location of a neolithic burial chamber) *Three Shire Stones - Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire/Warwickshire () (location 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 () Former nineteenth century meeting point of Staffordshire with detached parts of Shropshire and Worcestershire. Cut down in 1904. Commemorated in name of current road.〔'Old Smethwick', 11 December 1948〕 *Three Shire Head - Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire near Flash () (also known as Three Shire Stones, the former location of three stones marking the boundary and shown on John Speed's map of 1612) *Threeshire Wood - Buckinghamshire/Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire () ==See also== *No Man's Heath with a Four Shire Stone (allegedly) *Four shire stone where Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire once met *Three-Farthing Stone in The Shire of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium *Tripoint - a point where three counties (or other geographical entities) meet *Quadripoint - a point where four counties (or other geographical entities) meet 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「Three Shire Stone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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