Stone-in-Oxney

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Stone-in-Oxney
Kent
St. Mary's, Stone in Oxney, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1605040.jpg
St Mary's church
Location
Grid reference: TQ939278
Location: 51°1’0"N, 0°45’55"E
Data
Population: 392  (2001 (inc. Ebony))
Post town: Tenterden
Postcode: TN30
Dialling code: 01233
Local Government
Council: Ashford
Parliamentary
constituency:
Ashford

Stone in Oxney is a village and ancient parish in the hundred of Oxney in Kent, to the south of south of Ashford. It forms part of the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony near Appledore.

The village is 11 miles south-east of Tenterden, and stands in a position on the eastern side of the Isle of Oxney. The stone that gives the village its name is preserved in the village church, and is of Roman origin.[1] Often thought to be an altar of Mithras, it in fact depicts Apis.[2]

The Saxon Shore Way, a long distance walking route tracing the old Saxon shoreline, passes through the parish.

References

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  2. The Roman cult of Mithras.
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