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.
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.
The village of Stone adjoins the village of Hartwell.
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