Gazetteer of Scotland

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many interesting monuments of at once
the Caledonian, the Roman, and the
subsequent times. The towns with each
more than 10,000 inhabitants are Stirling
and Falkirk ; with each more than 3000
are Kilsyth, Denny, Lennoxtown, and
part of Bridge of Allan ; with each more
than 2000 are Grangemouth, Bannockburn,
and Milngavie; with each more than 1000
are St. Ninians, Cambusbarron, Balfron,
Stenhousemuir, Lauriston, and Carron
Ironworks ; and the villages with each
more than 300 amount to twenty-nine.
Real property in 18S0-S1, £488,582. Pop.
in 1871, 9S,218; in 1881, 112,437.
STITCHEL, village and parish on north
border of Roxburghshire. The village
stands 3^ miles west of Kelso, and has a
post office under Kelso, a parochial church,
a United Presbyterian church of 1877 in
lieu of a notable old one, and a public
school with about 62 scholars. — The parish
measures 4 miles by 2f, and comprises
2799 acres, but has annexed to it, both
politically and ecclesiastically, the contigu-
ous parish of Hume in Berwickshire.
Hume has been separately noticed. Real
property of Stitchel in 1SS0-81, £5641.
Pop. 342. The rivulet Eden runs across
and makes a fine cascade. Nearly all the
land is under cultivation. Stitchel House
was erected in 1S66, and has a tower more
than 100 feet high, commanding a very
extensive view.
STOBACHOIN, mountain, 2S39 feet high,
on north screen of Strathgartney, Perth-
shire.
STOBBS, village, with gunpowder mills,
adjacent to Gorebridge, Edinburghshire.
STOBCOIRE, summit, 3497 feet high, at
north-western extremity of Balquhidder
braes, Perthshire.
STOBCREAGACH, summit, 2966 feet
high, If mile north-east of Stobcoire,
Perthshire.
STOBCROSS. See Glasgow.
STOBGARBH, summit, 3148 feet high,
2| miles south-east of Crianlarich, Perth-
shire.
STOBGLAS, summit, 3673 feet high,
1J mile south-south-west of Stobgarbh,
Perthshire.
STOBGREEN, village adjacent to Stob-
hill, Edinburghshire.
STOBHALL, seat on the Tay in Cargill
parish, Perthshire.
STOBHILL, village on mutual border of
Newbattle and Temple parishes, Edin-
burghshire. It has a quoad sacra
parochial church, a Free church, and a
large public school. Pop. of quoad sacra
parish, 3065.
STOBHILL-ENGINE, hamlet in Cockpen
parish, Edinburghshire.
STOBINNAN, summit, 3827 feet high,
adjacent to Benmore, on south flank of
Glendochart, Perthshire.
STOBLUIB, hill-summit, 1579 feet high,
on south flank of Glendochart, near Luib
railway station, Perthshire.
STOBMEALL, summit, 2467 feet high,
3 miles north-west of Balquhidder village,
Perthshire.
STOBO, parish, with post office desig-
nated of Peeblesshire, and railway station
6J miles south-west of Peebles. Its
length is 6 miles ; its greatest breadth
■ih miles ; its area 10,302 acres. Real
property in 1880-S1, £5183. Pop. 467.
The surface is half engirt by the Tweed
and the Lyne ; includes, on a high base,
a belt of beautiful ornate land along
the Tweed ; rises thence in uplands,
with intersecting glens, to the north-west ;
and has there a number of summits up-
ward of 1500 feet high. Stobo Castle and
Dawick are the seats of respectively Sir
Graham G. Montgomery, Bart., and Sir
James Nasmyth, Bart.; and Sheriffmuir
peninsula, at confluence of the Lyne and
the Tweed, contains interesting anti-
quities. The public school has about 52
scholars.
STOBS, railway station and seat of Sir
William F. A. Eliott, Bart., 4 miles south
of Hawick, Roxburghshire.
STOBSMILLS. See Stobbs.
STOCKBRIDGE, north-western suburb
of Edinburgh. It is bisected by "Water of
Leith northward from vicinity of Dean
Bridge ; it embraces a romantic reach
of the river's ravine, overhung by lofty
houses of Moray Place, and containing
St. Bernard's Well ; it engirds the site of
an ancient village ; it stands on ground
diversified from low flat to steep brae ;
it exhibits much diversity and mixture
of character, from meanness to high
grandeur ; it includes elegant terraces and
handsome crescents ; and it contains Free
and United Presbyterian churches, adjoins
an Episcopalian church, and is near great
educational and philanthropic institutions.
STOCKBRIDGE, place, with United
Presbyterian church, about a mile south
of Cockburnspath village, Berwick-
shire.
STOCKBRIGGS, seat near Lesmahagow,
Lanarkshire.
STOCKMUIR, tract, with ancient
Caledonian stone circle, in Abernyte
parish, Perthshire.
STOCKY, extensive high moor, aver-
agely Ah miles south-by-east of Drymen
village, on south-west border of Stirling-
shire.
STOER, quoad sacra parish, north of
Lochinver, on south-west coast of Suther-
land. It was constituted in 1877 ; it mea-
sures about 11 miles by 10 ; and it has a
post office under Lairg, Established and
Free churches, and a public school with
about 126 scholars. Pop. 1386.
STONEBYRES, fall on the Clyde, and
estate adjacent to it, about 3 miles north-
west of Lanark. The fall commences at
foot of very narrow rocky crevasse ; makes
three fan-like leaps, somewhat similar to
those of Corra-Linn ; and is engirt by a
rugged, rocky, copse-clad amphitheatre.