Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Shire Stones

Shire Stones, 3 stones and a stone pillar marking the meeting-point of the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancaster, at head of mountain pass from DuddonVale to Little Langdale, 5m. NW. of Hawkshead.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "3 stones and a stone pillar"   (ADL Feature Type: "monuments")
Administrative units: Westmorland AncC
Place: Three Shire Stone

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