Disambiguation Shire

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Shire may also refer to:

UK

• Four Shire Stone, where four English counties once met each other
• Shire Brook, in South Yorkshire, England
• Shire Country Park, a park south of Birmingham, England
• The Shires, a collective term for the counties of England ending in shire or rural England in general; see Shire § "The Shires"

US

• Shires of Virginia, local government units in the U.S. state
• The Shire or New Hampshire, informal designation of the U.S. state

Other

• Shire, Ethiopia, a town and a district in Tigray region
• Shire, Mawal, a village in Mawal taluka, Pune district, Maharashtra, India
• Shire Highlands, a plateau in southern Malawi east of the Shire River
• Shire River, a river in Malawi and Mozambique
• Apostolic Vicariate of Shire, a Roman Catholic territorial jurisdiction in what was then Nyasaland Protectorate (now Malawi)
• The Shire or Sutherland Shire, a suburban region of southern Sydney, Australia

• Shire Hall, Monmouth, Wales, a building
• Shire Hall, Newport, Wales, a building

• Shire Books, a British publisher of books on history, heritage and antiques
• Shire Foods, a manufacturer of pies, pasties, and sausage rolls based in Warwickshire, England
• Shire (pharmaceutical company), a British speciality pharmaceuticals company

• The Shire, a region in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
• The Shires, a 1974 poetry collection by Donald Davie

• The Shires (duo), a British country music duo
• The Shire (soundtrack), part of the soundtrack of The Fellowship of the Ring

• Shire (name), a traditional Somali name, including a list of people with the name
• Shires (surname), including a list of people with the name

• The Shires, former name of the English shopping centre now known as Highcross Leicester
• The Shires Shopping Centre, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

• Battle of Shire (1936), a battle of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
• Battle of Shire (2022), a battle of the Tigray War
• East Stirlingshire F.C. or the Shire, a Scottish football club
• Shire horse, a large breed of draft horse
• The Shire (TV series), an Australian reality television series

• Shier, a surname
• Shyer, a surname