Stone, Buckinghamshire
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Stone is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located south west of the town of Aylesbury, on the main road that links Aylesbury to Thame.
The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and refers literally to boundary stone or marker stone. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Stanes.
The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist, and is dated 1273. The graveyard contains the grave of Admiral Smyth.
The village also has a primary school with around 210 pupils.
In the early 19th century an asylum was opened in Stone for people with disabilities or mental illnesses. It was closed in the 1980s, and the vast expanse of land has since been given over to a new housing estate.
The architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed the village hall in 1910.
In 1806, Magna Britannia described Stone as
- STONE, in the hundred of Aylesbury and deanery of Wendover, lies nearly three miles west of Aylesbury, on the road to Thame. The manor was anciently in the family of Braci, afterwards in that of Whittingham. It has been since held for many years by the Lees with the adjoining manor of Hartwell, and is now the property of the Rev. Sir George Lee bart.
- The parish church which was consecrated in 1273, retains some vestiges of the architecture of that period. The rectory was given by the Braci family to the priory of Oseney. By the act of parliament which passed for inclosing this parish in 1776, it appears that the Lees were entitled to the great tithes of Southwarp in Stone, and the earl of Chesterfield to those of the remainder of the parish. Allotments of land were then assigned to the impropriators and to the vicar, who was entitled to the tithes of hay. Sir George Lee is patron and incumbent of the vicarage.
The village of Stone adjoins the village of Hartwell.
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Magna Britannia: Buckinghamshire, Lysons S. and Lysons D., 1806
