Stenhouse, Edinburgh

It lies to the west of the City Centre, adjacent to Whitson and Saughton Mains and close to Broomhouse and Chesser.

[1] Early references are variously to Stennop Milne (1576), Stanehope mylnes (1578), Stanehopps (1585), Stenhopmilne (1630) until, in 1773, the name Stenhouse Mill appears.

[4] Around five hundred houses were built at Stenhouse between 1930 and 1936 by the City Architect Ebenezer MacRae, mainly flatted blocks, but with a few tenements.From November 1953, 287 (4th Edinburgh) Squadron, of the Air Training Corps, was based at its drill hall in the extreme north-west of Stenhouse, next to the Edinburgh/Glasgow railway line.

In 2008, the Squadron was forced to move to make way for the Edinburgh Trams line but it relocated to new premises on Stevenson Drive, adjacent to Saughton Enclosure, in 2010.

Another part of Edinburgh – a hamlet east of Liberton now referred to as Ellen's Glen[5] – was once also known as Stenhouse probably after an ancient stone-built house in the area.