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    The Four Shire Stone is a boundary marker that marks the point where the English counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire...
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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:...
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    Three-Farthing Stone marked the approximate centre of the Shire. It was inspired by the Four Shire Stone near Moreton-in-Marsh, where once four counties met...
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  • may also refer to: Four Shire Stone, where four English counties once met each other Shire Brook, in South Yorkshire, England Shire Country Park, a park...
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    just east of Eynsham. Just over 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Moreton, the Four shire stone marked the boundary of the historic counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire...
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  • as far back as 1990. An early instance of four political divisions meeting at a point is the Four Shire Stone in Moreton-in-Marsh, England (attested in...
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    parish of Chastleton to the east. At Evenlode's northern tip is the Four shire stone, whose name predates the parish's 1931 transfer from Worcestershire;...
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    meeting point of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. Four Shire Stone, meeting point of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire (formerly...
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    The Three Shire Stone is a boundary stone that marks the location where the historic English counties of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland meet....
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  • transferred to Gloucestershire in 1931. Previously four counties had met at a point marked by the Four Shire Stone, but afterwards only Gloucestershire, Warwickshire...
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    Beverley, Flamborough Puckeridge, Cambridge, Ely, Downham, King's Lynn Four Shire Stone, Chipping Campden, Worcester, Ludlow, Montgomery High Barnet, Hatfield...
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  • Palantír (redirect from Stone of Seeing)
    while at least the Master-stone remained behind. Four were taken to Gondor, while three stayed in Arnor. Originally, the stones of Arnor were at Elostirion...
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  • at the edge of "Threeshire Wood". Marked by a "Three Shire Stone" Location of the "Four Shire Stone" monument, marking the location of a former quadripoint...
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    meeting point of Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire. Four Shire Stone, meeting point of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire (formerly...
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    Boulia Stone House is a heritage-listed detached house at Pituri Street, Boulia, Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. It forms part of the site of...
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    stone walls: revisiting the material culture of Great Zimbabwe". Antiquity. 82 (318): 976–993. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00097726. ISSN 0003-598X. Shire of...
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    Loki (redirect from Snaptun Stone)
    today), are used in several regions of Jutland, for example in Medelsom shire, the diocese of Viborg etc. ... and stand for the sight in the springtime...
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    Stonehenge (redirect from Stone Henge)
    ISSN 2397-334X. PMC 6520225. PMID 30988490. Aubrey Burl, Prehistoric Stone Circles (Shire, 2001) (In Burl's Stonehenge (Constable, 2006), he notes, cf. the...
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    Inverness-shire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Nis) or the County of Inverness, is a historic county in Scotland. It is named after Inverness, its...
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  • the aristocratic and independent Thain of the Shire, who farms at Whitwell near the Three Farthing Stone in the Tookland, and his wife Eglantine Banks...
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    areas (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia. No election will be held for Moira Shire after the council was dismissed in March 2023 and a panel of administrators...
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    The Shire Hall is a municipal facility in Tindal Square in Chelmsford, Essex. It is a Grade II* listed building. The current building was commissioned...
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  • region called the Shire, the homeland of the hobbits in the northwest of Middle-earth. Some also live in a region east of the Shire, Bree-land, where...
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  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film) (category Films scored by David Shire)
    starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Héctor Elizondo. Peter Stone adapted the screenplay from the 1973 novel of the same name written by Morton...
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  • Bayside City Council is composed of seven single-member wards. Cardinia Shire Council is composed of nine single-member wards. Casey City Council is composed...
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    Stonehenge is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Stonehenge had a population...
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    The Shire Hall (Welsh: Hengwrt) is a municipal building in Carmarthen Street, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The structure, which was used as a courthouse...
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    Discovering Prehistoric England. Shire. Fraser, D.; Howard-Davis, C.; Winchester, V.; David, A. Castlerigg Stone Circle Documentary and Field Survey...
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  • Frodo's friends at the Prancing Pony Inn in Bree. The four hobbits had set out from the Shire to bring the One Ring to Rivendell. Frodo and his friends...
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    industrialization. Saruman governs the Shire in secret under the name of Sharkey until the events of The Scouring of the Shire". In that penultimate chapter,...
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