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 2|, and comprises 2799 acres, but has annexed to it, both politically and ecclesiastically, the contiguous parish of Hume in Berwickshire. Hume has been separately noticed. Real property of Stitchel in 1880-81, 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 1866, and has a tower more than 100 feet high, commanding a very extensive view.
STOBACHOIN, mountain, 2839 feet high, on north screen of Strathgartney, Perthshire.
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.
STOBGARBH, summit, 3148 feet high, 2| miles south-east of Crianlarich, Perthshire.
STOBGLAS, summit, 3673 feet high, 1J mile south-south-west of Stobgarbh, Perthshire.
STOBGREEN, village adjacent to Stobhill, Edinburghshire.
STOBHALL, seat on the Tay in Cargill parish, Perthshire.
STOBHILL, village on mutual border of Newbattle and Temple parishes, Edinburghshire. 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. property The surf
STOBMEALL, summit, 2467 feet high, 3 miles north-west of Balquhidder village, Perthshire.
STOBO, parish, with post office designated of Peeblesshire, and railway station 6$ miles south-west of Peebles. Its length is 6 miles ; its greatest breadth miles ; its area 10,302 acres. Real in 1880-81, 5183. Pop. 467. 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 antiquities. 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.
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, Berwickshire.
STOCKBRIGGS, seat near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.
STOCKMUIR, tract, with ancient Caledonian stone circle, in Abernyte parish, Perthshire.
STOCKY, extensive high moor, averagely 4J miles south-by-east of Drymen village, on south-west border of Stirlingshire.
STOER, quoad sacra parish, north of Lochinver, on south-west coast of Sutherland. It was constituted in 1877 ; it measures 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. The estate adjoins the fall's left side, and has a mansion with extensive view, and a public school with about 58 scholars.
