Dedicated to the folk from Stanley
The origin of Stanley
Stanley owes its origin to extensive cotton mills erected in 1785 by Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1793). It is recorded in 1784 ground was feued at Stanley from the Duke of Atholl to build a mill for spinning cotton and soon after a village was erected upon a regular plan for accommodating the people to be employed in the Mill.
At that time only a few families dwelt near Stanley and excepting the land within the enclosures of Stanley House (Built by Lord Nairn) most of the area was almost in a state of nature. The turnpike road from Perth to Dunkeld was just then completed, the cross-country roads or paths being excessively bad and in winter almost impassable.
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Stanley a Perthshire village is in Auchtergaven, Kinclaven and Redgorton parishes, on the right bank of the winding Tay.
Auchtergaven and Redgorton Parishes are divided by the burn at the bottom of the Airntully road that runs down the west side of Perth Road and is piped over the railway line at the end of James Street and flows underneath the village green to the Well Brae. A small area of the Parish of Kinclaven is at the north end of the village.
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