Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stanley

Stanley, vil. with ry. sta. (Stanley Junction), Auchtergaven and Redgorton pars., and quoad sacra par., partly also in Kinclaven par., Perthshire - quoad sacra par., pop. 1276; vil., on river Tay, ½ mile SW. of Stanley Junction and 7 miles N. of Perth, pop. 1030; P.O., T.O.; has cotton factories; Stanley House, seat, is in vicinity.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Stanley

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