Four Shire Stone
The Four Shire Stone is a boundary marker that marks the point where the English counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire once met.- Type: Geographical marker
- Description: boundary marker in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Four shire stone” and “The Four Shire Stone”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Moreton-in-Marsh railway station and Chastleton House.
Moreton-in-Marsh railway station
Railway station
Photo: RichTea, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moreton-in-Marsh railway station serves the town of Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, England, and is on the Cotswold Line between Kingham and Honeybourne. The station and all passenger trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway. Moreton-in-Marsh railway station is situated 1½ miles west of Four Shire Stone.
Chastleton House
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chastleton House is a Jacobean country house at Chastleton, Oxfordshire, England, close to Moreton-in-Marsh. It has been owned by the National Trust since 1991 and is a Grade I listed building. Chastleton House is situated 2 miles southeast of Four Shire Stone.
Church of St David
Church
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of St David is situated 1½ miles west of Four Shire Stone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moreton-in-Marsh and Lower Lemington.
Moreton-in-Marsh
Photo: Mark Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moreton-in-Marsh is in the Cotswolds. The town lies at the crossroads of the Fosse Way, the ancient Roman road, and the A44. It's next to the River Evenlode, a tributary of the River Thames.
Lower Lemington
Hamlet
Lower Lemington is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Batsford, in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is about 2 miles north-east of Moreton-in-Marsh. Lower Lemington is situated 1½ miles northwest of Four Shire Stone.
Barton-on-the-Heath
Village
Barton-on-the-Heath is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 85. Barton-on-the-Heath is situated 1½ miles east of Four Shire Stone.
Four Shire Stone
- Categories: boundary marker and historic site
- Location: Little Compton, Stratford-on-Avon District, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.98748° or 51° 59′ 15″ northLongitude
-1.66577° or 1° 39′ 57″ westOpen location code
9C3WX8PM+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4080505022OpenStreetMap feature
historic=boundary_stoneWikidata ID
Q17105519
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