STONEFIELD, town in Blantyre parish, Lanarkshire. It has a post office under Glasgow, and an Established church founded in 1878 and containing 900 sittings. Pop. of town proper, 2164; with Spring-wall, Dixon's Rows, and Baird's Rows, 4509.

STONEFIELD, bay on south side of Loch Etive, between Bunawe and Connel Ferry, Argyleshire.

STONEFIELD, seat on south-east side of West Loch Tarbert, Argyleshire. STONEHAVEN (vulgarly STANEHIVE), seaport town and capital of Kincardineshire, 15 miles by road, but 16 by railway, south-south-west of Aberdeen. It consists of a dingy irregular old town, and a pleasant well-planned new town, separated from each other by Carron river ; it carries on small commerce and considerable country business, and publishes a weekly news-paper ; and it has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, a town hall of 1877, Free, United Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, the last two built in 1877, and a free school. Pop. 3948.

STONEHILL, hill in Carmichael parish, Lanarkshire.

STONEHOUSE, town and parish in middle ward of Lanarkshire. The town stands near Avon river, 7 miles south-east of Hamilton ; comprises a long main street and two neat new streets ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Lanarkshire, a railway station, a banking office, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Evangelical Union churches, and 2 public schools with about 326 scholars. The Established church is a handsome modern edifice, with upwards of 900 sittings, and the United Presbyterian church was re-built in 1879. Pop. of the town, 2615. The parish contains also Sandford village, measures about 6 miles by nearly 3, and comprises 6241 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 12,654. Pop. 3173. The surface consists of pleasant hanging plains, and the rocks are chiefly carboniferous. Chief antiquities are remains of two old castles, and the site of a very strong camp.

STONEHOUSE, vestige of strong Border peel in Gretna parish, Dumfriesshire.

STONELAW, seat and colliery in Rutherglen parish, Lanarkshire.

STONE-LUDD, standing-stone, supposed to be memorial of ancient victory, in Bower parish, Caithness.

STONEYHALL, hamlet in Inveresk parish, Edinburghshire.

STONEYHILL, estate in Abercorn parish, Linlithgowshire.

STONEYKIRK, village and parish in Rhinns district, "Wigtonshire. The village stands 5 miles south-south-east of Stranraer, and has a post office designated of Wigtonshire, Established and Free churches, and a public school. The parish measures about 8 miles by 7J, and com-prises 19,480 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 21,382. Pop. 2766. The west coast has an extent of 7 miles, and is mostly bold and rocky ; the east coast, on upper part of Luce Bay, has an extent of 6 miles, and includes a bay with landing-ground for small craft ; and the interior is mostly undulated, but rises much more rapidly from the west coast than from the east. Chief seats are Ardwell and Balgreggan ; and chief antiquities are three conical earthen mounds, a battlemented tower of 13th century, and remains of two old churches and of several Scandinavian forts and Caledonian stone circles. There are 4 schools for 448 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 210 are new.

STONEYPATH, hill and ruined old tower in Whittingham parish, Haddingtonshire.

STONEYWOOD, place, 4 miles west of Aberdeen. An Established church was erected here in 1879, contains 800 sittings, and was intended to be made quoad sacra parochial.

STONEYWOOD, place, with two factories, in Denny parish, Stirlingshire.

STONYHILL, quondam notable mansion and extant seat in Inveresk parish, Edinburghshire.

STOOP, village about a mile north-east of Dumfries.

STOOS, headland near middle of east side of South Ronaklshay Island, Orkney.

STORE, Isle of Skye.

STORE, Sutherland.

STORMONT, district, bounded by Dunkeld Hills and the rivers Tay, Isla, and Ericht, in Perthshire. It measures about 14 miles by 7J, exhibits much beauty and diversity of landscape, and gives the title of viscount to the Earl of Mansfield.

STORMONTFIELD, village on the Tay in Scone parish, Perthshire. It has a large bleachfield and a public school with about 57 scholars.

STORNOWAY, sea-loch, seaport town, castle, and parish in Lewis, Outer Hebrides. The sea-loch opens from the south-east at 60 miles north-by-west of Portree ; is a capacious well-sheltered bay; has, on a point at its entrance, a lighthouse with revolving light visible at the distance of 12 nautical miles ; has also, on low tide rock, about 200 yards from the lighthouse, a beacon with prisms showing an apparent light ; and is provided, at the head, witli commodious pier and first-class patent slip. The town stands at the loch's head ; sprang from an old small fishing hamlet ; underwent much extension and vast improvement subsequent to Sir James Matheson's purchase of Lewis ; ranks now as a head port, the centre of a great fishery district, and the seat of administration for the Ross-shire Hebrides ; comprises ten or more well-aligned streets and a number of small suburbs ; presents an appearance similar to that of a neat third-class Low-land town ; includes fragmentary ruin of an old castle dismantled by the troops of Cromwell ; and has a head post office with all departments, 3 banking offices, 3 hotels, an assembly-room, a court-house, a parochial church, 2 Free churches, United Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches, 2 educational institutes, and a Free Church school. The vessels belonging to the port at end of 1879 were 23 sailing vessels of aggre-gately 1642 tons, and 1 steam vessel of 66 tons. The vessels which entered in that year were 731 British of 101,195 tons, and 6 foreign of 727 tons ; and those which cleared were 694 British of 98,222 tons, and 7 foreign of 857 tons. The exports com-prise fish, cattle, horses, sheep, and wool, and have a value of about 150,000 a year ; and the imports are very miscellaneous, and have an equal or greater value. The fishing-boats of the district in 1879 were 1014, worked by 3968 men and boys. Pop. of the town, 2627. The castle crowns a height overlooking the town, occupies the site of an old mansion of the Mackenzies of Seaforth, was erected by the late Sir James Matheson, is a splendid edifice in . the Tudor style, and has charming grounds adorned at great cost, and open to the public. The parish contains also Back, Lower Bayble, Upper Bayble, Coll, Garrabost, Sandwick, Swordle, Knock, Tolsta, Tong, and Vatskir villages ; measures about 20 miles by 12; and comprises 67,652 acres. Keal property in 1880-81, 13,155. Pop., quoad civilia, 10,386; quoad sacra, 7333. Most of the land is compact, narrowing northward to an acute angle ; but a large arm strikes from the north side of Loch Stornoway, first forms a peninsula 3J miles long and from \ mile to 2j miles broad, then contracts to an isthmus less than 200 yards wide, and then expands into a semi-insular tract 6^ miles long and from f mile to 2J miles broad, separated from the mainland by a bay averagely more than 3 miles wide. The _ coast has mostly a gentle acclivity, but is partly bold and rocky, and includes several caves and fissures. The interior almost everywhere rises slowly from the coast ; and, excepting a hill about 650 feet high on the southern boundary, it contains no considerable eminence. Chief antiquities are a large cairn and remains of three old chapels. Established and Free churches are at Knock, and a Free church is at Back. Fifteen schools for 1963 scholars are in the parish, and 7 of them and an enlargement for 1209 are new.