Three Shire Heads
Three Shire Heads is the tripoint on Axe Edge Moor where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, at UK grid reference SK009685, or. It is on the River Dane, which marks the Cheshire border in this area.- Type: Locality
- Description: point where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet
- Also known as: “Panniers Pool”, “Three Shire Head”, and “Three Shires Head”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oliver Hill and Cheeks Hill.
Oliver Hill
Peak
Photo: Roger Brooks, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oliver Hill is a hill, 513 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Staffordshire in England. It is a treeless summit surrounded by farmland in the southern part of the Peak District about 6 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Buxton.
Cheeks Hill
Peak
Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cheeks Hill is a hill on Axe Edge Moor in the Peak District, England. It lies just south of the Cat and Fiddle Road near Buxton, and forms part of the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
Danebower Colliery ventilation chimney, 750m north east of Holt
Monument
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Danebower Colliery ventilation chimney, 750m north east of Holt is a monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flash and Wildboarclough.
Flash
Village
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Flash is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands and the Peak District National Park, England. At 1,519 feet above sea level, it is the highest village in the United Kingdom. Flash was an early centre for Wesleyanism.
Wildboarclough
Hamlet
Photo: Pete Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wildboarclough is a village in the Macclesfield Forest, in the civil parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, in the Cheshire East district of Cheshire, England, within the Peak District National Park. Wildboarclough is situated 1½ miles west of Three Shire Heads.
Allgreave
Village
Photo: Steve Lewin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Allgreave is a village in the civil parishes of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough and Wincle, in the Cheshire East district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Allgreave is situated 2½ miles west of Three Shire Heads.
Three Shire Heads
- Categories: tripoint and confluence
- Location: Quarnford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.21399° or 53° 12′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.98749° or 1° 59′ 15″ westOpen location code
9C5W6277+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 776089184OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q7797790
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