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  Stone is a town in Staffordshire, England, situated about seven miles north of Stafford, and around seven miles south of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It is the second town, after Stafford itself, in the Borough of Stafford, and has long been of importance from the point of view of communications. Stone gave its name to both an urban district council and a rural district council before becoming part of the borough in 1974. In 2001 it had a population of 14,555 Personalities Stan Collymore, Born in Stone in 1971 James Brindley, the Surveyor-General of the Trent & Mersey Canal. L. T. C. Rolt, author of ’Narrowboat’ which helped to promote the canal network of today, plus several engineering biographies and other works. Cedric Price, architect, was born in Stone in 1934. Rendel Wyatt the founder, in 1948, of the Canal Cruising Company in Stone. Rendel was a pioneer of Narrowboat holidays. Eva Morris, the oldest person in the world from December 1999 to her death in November 2000, lived in Stone. Chris Birchall, a soccer player who plays for Port Vale F.C. Birchall was born in 1984 and plays international football for Trinidad and Tobago, as his mother was born there

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