NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Stone, Buckinghamshire

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and refers to 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.

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.

Categories: Villages in Buckinghamshire

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Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (449 words)
	Stone may be used as a building material, as in this dry stone wall
	A stone is a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds.
	As a verb, the intoxicating effects of cannabis, as in to be stoned.

Stone, Buckinghamshire - definition of Stone, Buckinghamshire in Encyclopedia (139 words)
	The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and refers to literally to boundary stone or marker stone.
	In the early Nineteenth 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.

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