Stone-cum-Ebony is a large mostly rural and marshland civil parish centred 7 miles (11 km) SSW of Ashford in Kent, South East England. It includes the village of Stone in Oxney and tiny community of Ebony. Its population expanded by 69 in the ten years to 2011.

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Stone-cum-Ebony
Stone-cum-Ebony Location within Kent
Area	19.18 km2 (7.41 sq mi)
Population	460 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density	24/km2 (62/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TQ939278
Civil parish	Stone-cum-Ebony
District	Ashford
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TONBRIDGE
Postcode district	TN30
Dialling code	01233
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Ashford
List of places UK England Kent 51.0167°N 0.7654°E / 51.0167; 0.7654

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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^{[citation needed]}
• Norman Forbes-Robertson, distinguished Victorian Shakespearean actor^{[citation needed]}
• Dave McKean, illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician^{[citation needed]}
• George Newson, composer^[4]
• Sinden family:
  • Sir Donald Sinden CBE, actor^[5][6]
  • Marc Sinden, film director, actor and West End theatre producer^[7]