No Man's Heath (four counties)
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No Man's Heath (grid reference SK290090) is an area six miles north-east of Tamworth, Staffordshire. Its name indicates that it is on high heathland near the borders of four English counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire. The place is probably a highpoint on an ancient road, either Roman or Mercian. Nearby in the late 1800s were Netherseal Colliery and Netherseal Hall.
Today a small village exists there, also called No Man's Heath. The county boundary which used to divide the village between Leicester and Warwickshire has been re-drawn to place the whole village in Warwickshire. The village pub is appropriately called The Four Counties Inn.
Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire meet about half a mile (800 m) north west of the village and Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire meet a further half mile north west. There is an ancient (probably Mercian) stone, divided into four parts, which may mark the point where the four counties met before boundary adjustments.
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- The village should be shown on all of the four maps offered by old-maps.co.uk. But in fact it only appears on their set for Derbyshire.
