Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

STANELY CASTLE
vicinity of Shotts Ironworks, 5 furlongs SE of Shotts
station, and 6^ miles ENE of Wishaw. It dates from
ancient times, and is now associated chiefly with the
Shotts Ironworks and with extensive collieries. Pop.
(1871) 937, (1881) 911, (1891) 1017.
Stanely Castle, an ancient seat of the Danzielstons,
in Abbey-Paisley parish, Renfrewshire, at the northern
base of the Braes of Glenifper, 2 miles SSW of
Paisley. A massive corbelled tower, 40 feet high, it is
in a state of fair preservation, and since 1837 has been
engirt by a reservoir of the Paisley waterworks. — Orel.
Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
Stanhope Burn. See Drummelzier.
Stanley, a Perthshire village in Auchtergaven and
Redgorton parishes, on the right bank of the winding
Tay, 5 furlongs S by W of Stanley Junction on the
Caledonian railway (1847), this being 8J miles SE of
Dunkeld, 8| SW of Coupar- Angus, and 7J N by W of
Perth. It owes its origin to extensive cotton-mills,
erected in 1785 under the auspices of the celebrated
Arkwright; and it has shared the fluctuating fortunes
of these mills, which were stopped from 1814 to 1823,
and then acquired by Dennistoun, Buchanan, & Co., who
spent £160,000 on their improvement, and employed
1200 workers. The cotton famine of 1862 occasioned
another stoppage, but since 1876 the works have greatly
revived under the new and able management of Col.
Sandeman. They are driven by water-power, brought
from the Tay with a fall of 25 feet, and led to the mills
by a tunnel 800 feet long. The situation of Stanley,
on a considerable elevation above the river, is pleasant
and salubrious. There are two places of worship in
the town — the one Established, the other Free. The
former, a large and handsome edifice, with 1150 sit-
tings, was erected in 1828 at a cost of over £5000,
and was raised to quoad sacra status in 1877. Its
tower, 85 feot high, forms a conspicuous object to the
view of the surrounding country. A temperance hall,
with accommodation for 200 persons, was built in 1880;
and Stanley besides has a post office, with money order,
savings bank, and telegraph departments, gasworks
(for the mills only), a public library, and a public school.
Stanley House, * to the E of the village, is an ancient
mansion dating from the first half of the 15th century,
but greatly altered at various times during the
19th century, having been burnt in 1887, but since
rebuilt. Sheltered to the N by a crescent-shaped
hill, which rises 135 feet above the Tay, it stands
on a beautiful haugh, surrounded by grand old trees,
including a broad beech avenue. It was once a seat
of the Lords Nairne, and has memories of the Jacobite
third lord, who escaped from its dining-room after the
'45; whilst ' Lady Nairne's Tea-House ' still crowns the
top of the hill. At Stanley House, too, John Leech
drew for Punch 'Mr Briggs landing his first salmon'
in his arms after his tackle had been broken. The
present proprietor, Col. Frank Stewart Sandeman, is a
grand-nephew of the poetess, Lady Nairne. Pop. of
village (1841) 1945, (1851) 1769, (1861) 1274, (1871)
932, (1881) 1030, (1891) 1052, of whom 611 were females,
and 774 were in Auchtergaven parish; of q. s. parish
(1891) 1304, of whom 829 were in Auchtergaven, 102 in
Kinclaven, and 373 in Redgorton. Houses in village
(1891) occupied 276, vacant 17.— Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.
See also CAiirsiE, Inchbeuvie, Auchtergaven, and
pp. 511-516 of Thos. Hunter's Woods and Estates- of
Perthshire (Perth, 1883).
Starley Burn. See Burntisland.
Start Point, a headland at the eastern extremity of
Sanday Island in Orkney, 2| miles SE of Tafts Ness, 5
SSE of the southern extremity of North Ronaldshay, and
11 NE of Papa Stronsay. It terminates a narrow pen-
insula If mile long; was formerly, with that peninsula,
the scene of numerous shipwrecks; and was crowned,
* So named, about the beginning of the 18th century, after
Lady Amelia Sophia Stanley, daughter of the Earl and the faraouB
Countess of Derby, and herself Marchioness of Athole. Her fourth
son, Lord William Murray, in 1683 succeeded his father-in-law as
second Lord Nairne.
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STENNESS
in 1802, by a lofty stone beacon, transmuted, in 1806,
into a lighthouse, which now shows a fixed red light,
visible at a distance of 14 nautical miles.
Staxigoe, a fishing village in Wick parish, Caithness,
2 J miles NE of Wick town. A place of some antiquity,
it retains, in a state of tolerable preservation, two store-
houses which were used by the Earls of Caithness for
the reception of grain in the times when rents were
paid in kind, and has a public school and a fairly good
natural boat harbour.
Steel. See Monks Burn.
Steele-Road Station. See Castleton, Roxburgh-
shire.
Steilston, a place with a public school, in Holywood
parish, Dumfriesshire.
Steinscholl, a hamlet in Kilmuir parish, and a quoad
sacra, parish, partly also in Snizort parish, Isle of Skye,
Inverness-shire. The hamlet, called sometimes Staffin,
lies on the E coast of Trotternish peninsula, near the
head of Staffin Bay, 18 miles N of Portree. It has a
post and money order office (Staffin) under Portree, a
public school, and an inn. The quoad sacra parish,
consisting principally of the ancient parish of Kilmartin,
which now is united to Kilmuir, was constituted by the
ecclesiastical authorities in 1833, and reconstituted by
the Court of Teinds in 1847. It is in the presbytery
of Skye and the synod of Glenelg; the stipend is £146,
with a manse. The parochial church was built by
Government, and contains 350 sittings. In 1892 the
church and manse were repaired. There is a branch
church of Kilmuir Free Church at Steinscholl, Eastside.
Pop. of q. s. parish (1871) 1228, (1881) 1314, (1891)
1261, of whom 15 were in Snizort.
Stemster, a hamlet in Bower parish, Caithness-shire,
with a public school having accommodation for 118
children.
Stemster House. See Bower.
Stenhouse, a hamlet in Liberton parish, Edinburgh-
shire, on Burdiehouse Burn, f mile NW of Gilmerton.
Stenhouse, a mansion in Larbert parish, Stirlingshire,
in the northern vicinity of Carron Ironworks, 1J mile
E by N of Larbert station. Built in 1622, it has the
form of two sides of a rectangle, with turrets at its five
external angles. William Bruce, second son of Sir
Alexander Bruce of Airth, in 1611 obtained from his
father a charter of the lands of Stenhouse. He was
created a baronet in 1629; and his seventh descendant
is Sir William Cuningham Bruce, ninth Bart. (b. 1825;
sue. 1862). The estate now belongs to J. B. Sherriff,
Esq. of Carronvale. — Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.
Stenhousemuir, a small town in Larbert parish,
Stirlingshire, 3 furlongs NE of Larbert station, and 3
miles NNW of Falkirk. It presents an orderly and
pleasant appearance; consists chiefly of one-storey and
two-storey houses, many of them with gardens attached;
has a post office, with money order, savings bank, and
telegraph departments under Larbert, a mission hall, and
a Free church; and adjoins the large common on which
the Falkirk trysts have been held since 1785. Pop.
(1841) 1206, (1861) 1392, (1871) 1872, (1881)2617, (1891)
3718, of whom 1952 were males and 1766 females. — Orel.
Sur., sh. 31, 1867.
Stenness, an Orkney parish, whose church stands
near the SE shore of the Loch of Stenness, 5J miles NE
of Stromness and 10 J W by N of Kirkwall; there is a
post office under Stromness. It is bounded SE and S by
Orphir, W by the Bay of Ireland, NW by the Loch of
Stenness and Sandwick, N by Harray, and NE by
Firth, to which last it is quoad civilia united. Its
utmost length, from E to W, is 5J miles; and its
utmost breadth, from N to S, is 4J miles. Several
burns drain the interior to the Loch of Stenness or the
Bay of Ireland; and the surface, largely consisting of
moorland and heathy ridges, attains a maximum altitude
of 514 feet above sea-level at a point If mile S by E of
Stenness church. The Loch of Stenness consists of two
portions — upper and lower, or northern and south-
western. The upper, called also the Loch of Harray,
extends 4f miles south-south-eastward, and varies in