Stone-cum-Ebony

The parish is south east of Tenterden, and stands mostly slightly elevated on the eastern side of the Isle of Oxney.

The Saxon Shore Way, a long-distance walking route tracing the old Saxon shoreline, passes through the parish. Wholly within the greater Isle of Oxney, the far north of the parish is marked by a small tributary of the Rother. It has one long street lined community at its centre.

Being almost flat and rectangular in area, the current bounds are those reflecting the centuries-old church parish boundaries: the south-east of the parish has the Royal Military Canal which helps to drain what was otherwise an almost impenetrable marsh, and the west of the parish reaches to include about a quarter of Wittersham village centre. Its Baptist chapel in the north of the street is now a cottage.[2] The remaining religious building is a Grade II* church, i.e. mid-ranked in the national listed building ranking system. 10 other buildings, nearly half of those in total, are listed on the main street.

• George Digweed MBE, 16× World Sporting Shooter Champion[3]
• Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony JJSC, Supreme Court Justice
• Norman Forbes-Robertson, distinguished Victorian Shakespearean actor
• Dave McKean, illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician
• George Newson, composer[4]
• Sinden family:
  • Sir Donald Sinden CBE, actor[5][6]
  • Marc Sinden, film director, actor and West End theatre producer[7]

• Statistical civil parish overview – map