STONE, a parish, with a village and three hamlets, in Aylesbury district, Bucks; 2½ miles WSW of Aylesbury r. station. It has a post-office under Aylesbury. Acres, 2,590. Real property, £5,742. Pop. in 1851, 785; in 1861, 1,094,-of whom 295 were in the Bucks lunatic asylum. Houses, 169. The manor belongs to Dr. J. Lee. Peveraland St. John's Lodge are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £390.* Patron, the Royal Astronomical Society. The church is early English, with Norman arches; and was recently restored. There are two Wesleyan chapels and a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))