A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight . Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral part of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution .
20-569: Longstone or Long Stone may refer to Places [ edit ] Longstone, Edinburgh , a suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland Longstone, County Armagh , a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland Longstone, Cornwall , a hamlet in Cornwall, England Longstone, Isles of Scilly , a place in the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England Longstone, Somerset ,
40-548: A bleaching powder based on chlorine , which permitted year-round processing of fabric indoors, but many of the factories continued to be called bleachfields. A bleachfield is similar to, but should not be confused with, a tenterground . Bleachfields were a popular subject for Dutch painters in the 17th century. One of the stained glass windows made by Stephen Adam for the Maryhill Burgh Halls in 1878, shows linen bleachers at work. This article about textiles
60-635: A location in England Longstone, St Ives , a location in Cornwall, England Great Longstone and Little Longstone , two villages in Derbyshire, England Longstone Lighthouse , a lighthouse on Longstone Rock, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England Prehistoric [ edit ] The Longstone, Mottistone , a standing stone on the Isle of Wight, England The Longstones , two standing stones near Beckhampton, Wiltshire, England Longstone Rath ,
80-569: A prehistoric ringfort with a standing stone near Cullen, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Boswens Menhir , Cornwall, England, also known as the Long Stone The Long Stone, a standing stone on Shovel Down , Dartmoor, England Other [ edit ] Longstone (band) , an experimental, electronic music collective formed in Cheltenham, England Longstone GAC , a Gaelic Football club from Co. Down, Northern Ireland Topics referred to by
100-595: Is a non denominational primary school based at Redhall Grove (before 1957 it was based in Longstone Road). Longstone Primary School is a Category C listed structure and was built between 1954 and 1957 to a design by Reid and Forbes in a horizontal art deco style. It is considered a notable example of a 1950s modernist school building. Recently an additional school built next to Longstone Primary School called Redhall Primary School supports children with moderate learning difficulties. Bleachfield When cloth-making
120-467: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Longstone, Edinburgh Longstone is a suburb of Edinburgh in Scotland . The area is primarily residential in nature, although the area includes several small shops, eateries and supermarkets, as well as one of the main bus depots for the city's buses. The population of Longstone (including Saughton)
140-566: The 1760s, linen manufacture became a major industry in Scotland, second only to agriculture. For instance, in 1782 alone, Perthshire produced 1,700,000 yards (1,600,000 m) of linen, worth £81,000 (£12,577,000 as of 2024). Bleachfields were also common in northern England ; for instance, the name of the town of Whitefield , on the outskirts of Manchester, is thought to derive from the medieval bleachfields used by Flemish settlers. Bleachfields became redundant after Charles Tennant developed
160-553: The Longstone Garage but formerly called the Lothian Regional Transport Office. The building was designed by T Bowhill Gibson and Laing in 1949 in the art deco style and was built in 1955. It has space for 220 buses. There are also a small number of shops, a large Sainsburys supermarket and a car dealership, in addition to several churches. Slateford Longstone Church (formerly known as Longstone Hall Church)
180-591: The adjacent Water of Leith. Hailes Quarry Park is a public park and recreation area between Longstone and Kingsknowe that is on the site of a former quarry that closed in 1902. Redhall park is a public park bordering Longstone and Slateford that includes a football pitch, pavillon and play area. Redhall park contains the First and Second World War memorial for the Longstone and Slateford communities. Longstone has two educational facilities. Longstone Primary School
200-626: The aqueduct here. Direct local governance in Longstone is carried under the direction of the Longstone Community Council, established in 1980 and funded by the City of Edinburgh Council . Longstone is represented in the City of Edinburgh Council by four councillors under the Sighthill/Gorgie Ward . The area contains one of the city's main bus depots belonging to Lothian Buses , now named
220-416: The current Longstone Bus Garage was previously in use as a brickworks until the late 1940s. Today, housing is a mixture of terraces and flats, many consist of local authority housing, private housing and Ministry of Defence (armed services) housing, as well as former housing for prisoner officers of the nearby HM Prison Edinburgh . Longstone borders Craiglockhart to the east, Kingsknowe and Colinton to
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#1732849085265240-518: The nearby Redhall (also known as Reidhall) castle on the border between Longstone and Craiglockhart beside the Water of Leith. The castle was owned by Adam Otterburn , a Scottish lawyer in the 16th century. It was later besieged and taken by the forces of Oliver Cromwell in 1650. In the 18th century, the castle was demolished and the stones used to build Redhall House in 1756 under the ownership of George Inglis of Auchendinny. The castle's octagonal doocot
260-453: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Longstone . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longstone&oldid=909430408 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
280-605: The south, Wester Hailes and Parkhead to the west, and Saughton , Stenhouse and Slateford to the north. Longstone's most dramatic features are the Slateford Aqueduct (1822) carrying the Union Canal and the adjacent railway viaduct (1842). Underneath these runs the Water of Leith , and the canal may sometimes be seen pouring out through an overflow down into the river. The Water of Leith's visitor centre lies almost underneath
300-551: The walled garden is still in use, as a public garden under the ownership of the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and lies within Longstone's boundary. Longstone developed and expanded significantly after the Second World War and now, predominantly consists of post-war, mid 20th century housing in flats and semi-detached villas. In the 1940s, Longstone Road was known as Drumbrydon Road. The area occupied by
320-399: Was 4,678 in 2019. For much of its early history, Longstone was used for agricultural purposes, with three farms being recorded in the 18th century. Inglis Green Road and manor house lie on the border between Longstone and Slateford. The name Inglis Green was given in 1773 when George Inglis of Redhall leased the land to a local businessman for use as a cloth Bleaching Green . The area
340-489: Was designed by the architect Leslie Grahame Thomson MacDougall in 1952 as a dual public hall and church, with a circular tower and copper roof. It was completed in 1954 and opened for worship in 1955 as a church under the Church of Scotland . The Longstone Inn is a 19th-century public house on Longstone road. The inn and several adjacent properties have been abandoned since 2020 after becoming unsafe, following severe flooding of
360-530: Was formerly the site of a pre-18th century farmstead known as Gray's Mill Farm (used very briefly as a temporary headquarters by Charles Edward Stuart in September 1745) and subsequently developed as a mill and then as a laundry until closing in 1983. In the Victorian period, Longstone was classed as a hamlet in the parish of Colinton . Redhall park and the adjacent street names in Longstone take their name from
380-514: Was kept and a walled garden also created. The house was subsequently inherited by his nephew, Vice-Admiral John Inglis . By the early 20th century, the House was purchased by the Edinburgh Corporation and converted to a children's home, now since defunct. Some of the adjacent estate has been converted to housing, with the doocot restored, although the main house remains abandoned. However,
400-533: Was still a home-based occupation, the bleachfields could be found on Scottish crofts and English farm fields . Just as wool needed fulling and flax needed retting , so did the semi-finished fabrics need space and time outdoors to bleach. In the 18th century there were many linen bleachfields in Scotland, particularly in Perthshire , Renfrewshire in the Scottish Lowlands , and the outskirts of Glasgow . By
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