OS1/25/13/44

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STANLEY HILL Stanley Hill
Stanley Hill
Stanley Hill
Stanley Hill
Stanley Hill
Dunkeld its Straths & Glens
New Statistical Account
R.C. Carrington Esqr.
Revd [Reverend] John Wilson
Revd. [Reverend] D. McBride
062 A small knoll within the pleasure grounds of the Duke of Athole, it is a natural feature but its appearance has been much improved by art.
"Stanley Hill, to the south of the Stable Court, is the next object that will be noticed. It is a beautiful wooded Knoll, mounded and terraced in the formal style; and as a specimen of the taste of a former age, it is a curiosity, and has been an expensive one, There is a Battery of small cannon on it, for giving salutes."
Dunkeld, its Straths & Glens
The New Statistical Account in speaking of the derivation of Dunkeld, says, "A number of sensible people still assert, that the hazel hill, meant by Dr. [Doctor] Buchannan, is Stanley hill, within the Atholl pleasure grounds; and that from that hill the word Dunkeld is positively derived. Anciently, that hill was a small insignificant knoll, where the town's children amused themselves wrestling. It was a bare sandy knoll, and it was graphically called by them " Shawkee Hill." In 1730, James, Duke of Athole, heightened the knoll at very great expense, and formed it with military slopes, like a German fortification. As a specimen of the taste of a former age, it is a curiosity. This artifical mound, the Duke called Stanley Hill, after his mother, Lady Emily Stanley. The village of Stanley, in Redgorton, derives its name from the same source."

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County of Perth -- Parish of Caputh

[Note to description:]
a few small cannon
on the surface of the hill

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