Four Shire Stone, Moreton-in-Marsh

Name: Four Shire Stone
Address: Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Moreton-in-Marsh

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The Four Shire Stone is a boundary marker that marks the place where the four historic English counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire once met. Since 1931, with a change to the boundaries of Worcestershire, only three of the counties meet at the stone. ()

Coordinates: 51°59'15"N, 1°39'57"W

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Moreton-in-Marsh United Kingdom

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Four Shire Stone – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rollright Stones, St Edward's Church, Sezincote House, Batsford Arboretum.

4.1 miE
History museum, Museum
Rollright Stones, Chipping Norton
106 min walk • The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
4.7 miSW
Church
St Edward's Church, Barton-on-the-Heath
120 min walk • St Edward's Church is a medieval-built Church of England parish church, serving Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. A tourist attraction, it is among 98 Grade I listed buildings in Cotswold, a mainly rural district having about one third of the total of Grade I listed buildings in Gloucestershire.
3.7 miW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Sezincote House, Cotswold Water Park
95 min walk • Sezincote House is the centre of a country estate in the civil parish of Sezincote, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The house was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, built in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire.
2.9 miW
Park
Batsford Arboretum, Moreton-in-Marsh
76 min walk • Batsford Arboretum is a 55-acre arboretum and botanical garden near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England, about 1½ miles north-west of Moreton-in-Marsh. It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public daily throughout most of the year.
4.4 miW
Church
Blockley Church, Cotswold Water Park
113 min walk • The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Church of England parish church in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
6 miSE
Concerts and shows, Theater
The Theatre, Chipping Norton
153 min walk • The Theatre Chipping Norton, sometimes The Theatre, Chipping Norton, is a theatre, cinema, gallery and music venue in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The main auditorium was originally a Salvation Army citadel, built in 1888.
3.5 miSW
Church, Gothic architecture
St James' Church, Cotswold Water Park
90 min walk • St James' Church is the Church of England parish church of Longborough, Gloucestershire, England. It is in the deanery of Stow, the archdeaconry of Cheltenham and the diocese of Gloucester.
1.6 miW
Memorial
Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial, Cotswold Water Park
41 min walk • Moreton-in-Marsh and Batsford War Memorial stands in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England, and is a memorial to those of Moreton and Batsford killed in the First and Second World Wars.
4.8 miSW
Manor house
Maugersbury Manor, Barton-on-the-Heath
123 min walk • Maugersbury Manor is a manor house in the village of Maugersbury in Gloucestershire. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since August 1960.
5.4 miSW
Memorial
Lower Swell War Memorial, Cotswold Water Park
139 min walk • Lower Swell War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the centre of the village of Lower Swell in Gloucestershire in south-western England. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.
3.8 miSE
Park, Neoclassical architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Daylesford House, Chipping Norton
98 min walk • Daylesford House is a Georgian country house near Daylesford, Gloucestershire, on the north bank of the River Evenlode near the border with Oxfordshire. It is about 5 miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold and 5 miles west of Chipping Norton.