Stone, Buckinghamshire
| Stone | |
| Buckinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 St John the Baptist parish church, Stone | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SP783123 |
| Location: | 51°48’16"N, -0°51’54"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,587 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Aylesbury |
| Postcode: | HP17 |
| Dialling code: | 01296 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Buckinghamshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Aylesbury |
Stone is a village and ancient parish in the Aylesbury Hundred of Buckinghamshire. It is located south-west of the town of Aylesbury, on the A418 road that links Aylesbury to Thame. It forms part of the civil parish of Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell which also incorporates the nearby settlements of Bishopstone and Hartwell.
The architect Clough Williams-Ellis designed the village hall in 1910.
Description
The village name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and refers literally to a boundary stone or marker stone. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Stanes.
The village of Stone adjoins the village of Hartwell.
The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist, and is dated 1273. The graveyard contains the grave of Admiral Smyth.
1806 description
In 1806, Magna Britannia[2] 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.
Astronomical observatory
In 1839, John Lee and the Royal Astronomical Society jointly owned the advowson of the parish. They appointed amateur scientist the Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade as vicar. Reade served as incumbent until 1859, establishing a school and an astronomical observatory, and performing pioneering work in the early development of photography.[3][4]
Village school
Stone Church of England Combined School is voluntary controlled, mixed primary school with approximately 180 pupils aged between four and eleven. The school's catchment area includes the nearby villages of Bishopstone and Hartwell, and children transfer to the school from Dinton Church of England School, at the age of seven. The school dates from 1871, but most of the present buildings date from 1973 when a major programme of building work provided a hall, new classrooms, a library, changing rooms, offices and an extended playground.
St John's Hospital
In the early 19th century an asylum (later known as St John's Hospital) was opened in Stone for people with disabilities or mental illnesses. It was closed in 1991, and the vast expanse of land has since been given over to a new housing estate.[5] Initially it was proposed that the Hospital site be saved and converted but attempts failed because the government insisted it be demolished as it was allegedly more economical. All that remains are the staff houses and the grade-II asylum chapel which is closed and boarded pending conversion to 3 dwellings.
World War II prisoner of war camp
During World War II, a Prisoner of War camp was located in Sedrup, a hamlet near Stone (Camp No. 36 Hartwell Dog Track).
The camp was known to house Italian prisoners from 1942 to 1946 and consisted mostly of tents with one hut.[6][7][8] A 1946 RAF aerial photo of the site shows camp buildings at Grid reference SP797121 (51°48’6"N, -0°50’43"W), on what is now the Meadoway housing estate adjacent to Sedrup Lane.[9] Remains of the camp were still evident on the site in the 1950s.
References
- ↑ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 3 February 2013
- ↑ Magna Britannia: Buckinghamshire, Lysons S. and Lysons D., 1806
- ↑ The Stone observatory is described in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1853)
- ↑ Wood (2004)
- ↑ "St John's Hospital, Stone". National Register of Archives. GB/NNAF/C53394: The National Archives. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O88278. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
- ↑ England, Historic (1 November 2003). "Prisoner of War Camps (1939 - 1948) - Twentieth Century Military Recording Project" (pdf). http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/prisoner-of-war-camps. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ↑ "POW Camps in UK - 1 to 50" (in en). Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121045046/http://www.kg6gb.org/pow_camps_in_uk.htm. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ↑ "Unlocking Buckinghamshire's past – Prisoners of war" (in en). https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=TBC554. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ↑ "Unlocking Buckinghamshire's past – Hartwell Dog Track – including RAF aerial photos" (in en). https://ubp.buckscc.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?UID=mbc22384. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- History and topography of Buckinghamshire: comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain Author James Joseph Sheahan, Publisher Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, Stone pages 198–204 -ISBN 0-8048-3390-7
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