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44-1008: Stockbridge may refer to: Places [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] Stockbridge, Edinburgh , a district of Edinburgh, Scotland Stockbridge, Hampshire Stockbridge, West Sussex Stockbridge Anticline , one of a series of parallel east–west trending folds in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire Stockbridge Village , Liverpool Stockbridge (UK Parliament constituency) United States [ edit ] Stockbridge, Georgia Stockbridge, Massachusetts Stockbridge, Michigan Stockbridge Township, Michigan Stockbridge, New York Stockbridge, Vermont Stockbridge, Wisconsin Stockbridge (town), Wisconsin Stockbridge Bowl , artificially impounded body of water north of Stockbridge, Massachusetts Stockbridge Falls ,

88-476: A First World War memorial in the town of Stockbridge in Hampshire in southern England People [ edit ] Francis B. Stockbridge (1826–1894), U.S. Senator from Michigan Levi Stockbridge (1820–1904), farmer and scientist from Hadley, Massachusetts Nellie Stockbridge (1860s–1965), early Idaho frontier mining district photographer Richard Stockbridge , distinguished professor of Mathematics at

132-474: A Native American tribe Stockbridge Mission Station, Eagletown, Oklahoma Stockbridge Capital Group , a private-equity estate investment company based in San Francisco See also [ edit ] Sockbridge Stocksbridge All pages with titles beginning with Stockbridge Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

176-526: A cemetery north of Stockbridge, Wisconsin Stockbridge public library , Edinburgh Stockbridge Racecourse , a horse racing venue in Hampshire, England which closed in 1898 Stockbridge School , a "progressive" co-educational boarding school for adolescents near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1948–1976 Stockbridge School of Agriculture , at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Stockbridge War Memorial ,

220-572: A cheese shop as well as many charity shops (some of which are among the highest grossing in the UK). The Bailie Bar pub is mentioned in various pub and tourist guides. There is a popular farmers' market each Sunday at Jubilee Gardens, close to the Water of Leith. The Edinburgh Academy's sports grounds are adjacent to The Grange Club , which is home turf of the Scottish cricket team . The venue hosted two fixtures of

264-582: A communication by a stone bridge across the Water of Leith from the New Street called Atholl Street, now India Place, to the grounds of St Bernards, parish of St Cuthberts, which piece of ground had previously been sold by George Lauder residing at Inverleith Mains, to the said (deceased) Sir Henry Raeburn on 28 June 1823". Doubtless it was thought that this new bridge (built the following year by James Milne, and today known as St. Bernard's Bridge) would assist in making those so far undeveloped parts of Stockbridge, and

308-507: A community festival, normally lasting 9 days at the end of June. Since 1988, the festival has held the Stockbridge Duck Race to raise money for local charities. 1000 rubber ducks are released into the Water of Leith. Each has a number written on its head and the first ducks past the winning line win prizes for their sponsors. "Duck Wardens" follow the ducks to keep them out of the reeds and to stop children spectating from falling into

352-414: A series of antique shops, bars and offices. A small spur on its north side, St Stephen Place, leads to the old Stockbridge Market, of which the original entrance archway still stands. Parallel to St Stephen Street, to the south, lies Circus Lane, a mews lane, integrating both old and new buildings. Circus Lane was once used as a service street to keep coaches and horses. The main road through Stockbridge

396-588: A shop in Stockbridge. It was a run-down second-hand clothes shop which occupied for many years a basement area in South East Circus Place, now Frame Creative, a design agency, and the Doubtfire Gallery. The name "Madame Doubtfire" remained in large, bold, faded-gold letters on the ageing shop fascia for many years after the lady's death (in 1979 aged 92 ). The novelist Anne Fine lived in the area at

440-707: A state, more white settlers moved into the former Choctaw territory. Eagle County had been abolished and superseded by McCurtain County at statehood. Some of the settlers became farmers, while others worked in the expanding timber industry. Choctaw Lumber Company (later Dierks Forests ) built a camp in Eagletown to house the timberworkers. The company also built a railway—the Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad —that connected to its line in Arkansas. The Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad laid

484-465: A waterfall located on Oneida Creek southwest of Munnsville, New York Structures [ edit ] Stockbridge Casino , a historic building in Stockbridge, Massachusetts Stockbridge House , historic building in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a.k.a. Amarillo Motel Stockbridge High School , a high school in Stockbridge, Georgia, Henry County School District Stockbridge Indian Cemetery ,

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528-460: Is Raeburn Place , a street of mixed character, with numerous small shops at ground-floor level. The link from this street to the New Town is via Deanhaugh Street and North West Circus Place. Saunders Street, south of the bridge, was built in 1974 as part of a slum clearance programme. The medical centre to its east is part of the same scheme. Gloucester Lane marks the line of the medieval road from

572-449: Is a rare early example of a New Town street with private front gardens. The eastern route into Stockbridge is marked by the local landmark, St Stephen's Church . This stands at the north end of St Vincent Street, its tower visible from the first New Town on the higher slope to the south. Originally intended to stand in the centre of Circus Place, it was redesigned and squeezed into its current restricted site on ground which falls sharply at

616-456: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stockbridge, Edinburgh Stockbridge is a district of Edinburgh , located north of the city centre, bounded by the New Town and by Comely Bank . The name is Scots stock brig from Anglic stocc brycg , meaning a timber bridge. Originally a small outlying village, it was incorporated into

660-498: Is in the shape of a circular Greek temple supported by ten tall Doric order columns, based on Sibyl's Temple at Tivoli. The original statue (made of Coade Stone ) was all but unrecognisable by 1820 and the temple stood for 50 years with no statue. In 1884 the lands (including the well) were purchased by the Edinburgh publisher William Nelson, who commissioned the current statue of Hygieia from David Watson Stevenson and presented

704-542: Is now maintained by the City of Edinburgh Council and open to the public for three hours on occasional Sundays during April to September. Raeburn Place is the main retail thoroughfare, and the playing fields there were the location of the first international rugby match when the Edinburgh Academy sports ground hosted the game between Scotland and England on 27 March 1871. Stockbridge contains speciality shops including

748-629: The 1999 Cricket World Cup . St Bernard's F.C. were a successful side but suffered declining support in the face of Hearts and Hibs . The neighbourhood is also home to the Stockbridge Pipe Band, founded in 1994. Currently fielding competition bands in Grade 4B and Grade 3A of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association , the band teaches the arts of piping, snare, tenor and bass drumming to all ages. Each year Stockbridge hosts

792-672: The Dictionary of the Choctaw Language . Byington also supervised the adjacent Iyanubbi Female Seminary , a boarding school for Choctaw girls that operated from 1844 until 1861. Eagletown soon became a trading center on the Military Trace, an 1820s wagon trail through Choctaw Country built to connect Fort Towson to other military forts in Arkansas. After the Choctaw Nation created and passed its constitution in 1850, Eagletown became

836-489: The Royal Botanic Garden and Inverleith Park , and ease of access to the city centre. This mineral water well is on the south bank of the Water of Leith, on an estate once known as St Bernard's. Just below a footpath is St Bernard's Well ( 55°57′19.1″N 3°12′41.4″W  /  55.955306°N 3.211500°W  / 55.955306; -3.211500 ); a small well-house was originally built in 1760. The waters of

880-566: The SNP . 55°57′31.68″N 3°12′36.56″W  /  55.9588000°N 3.2101556°W  / 55.9588000; -3.2101556 Eagletown, Oklahoma Eagletown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McCurtain County , Oklahoma , United States. The population was 528 at the 2010 census. Located on Mountain Fork River, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from

924-469: The "courtground" (i. e., county seat) of the newly created Eagle County . Jefferson Gardner, a Choctaw trader, opened a general store in 1874 on the east bank of the river. In 1884, built an imposing house that is now on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Gardner became principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, but lost his fortune shortly after his term ended in 1896. After Oklahoma became

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968-619: The 1820s put this area into Indian Territory . The white settlers were forced to move elsewhere in order to resettle the Choctaw tribe from Mississippi. When the first Choctaws arrived in 1832, they found fields that had been cleared for farming and cabins that had housed the previous inhabitants. As required by treaty, the Army established a feeding point here for the distribution of rations. An estimated 852 people were receiving rations here in April 1832. By 1834,

1012-654: The Botanic Gardens. Between Glenogle Road and the Water of Leith are eleven parallel streets, collectively known as the "Stockbridge Colonies", built between 1861 and 1911 by the Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company to provide low-cost housing for the artisan class. The streets are named after the company's founders, including geologist and writer Hugh Miller (1802–56). The colony houses are now coveted properties, due partly to their location near

1056-512: The City of Edinburgh in the 19th century. The current "Stock Bridge", built in 1801, is a stone structure spanning the Water of Leith . The painter Henry Raeburn (1756–1823) owned two adjoining estates, Deanhaugh and St Bernard's, which he developed with the assistance of the architect James Milne. Milne was also responsible for the fine St Bernard's Church (1823) in Saxe Coburg Street. Ann Street, designed by Raeburn and named after his wife,

1100-527: The Oklahoma- Arkansas border, it was the first permanent Choctaw settlement in the Indian Territory , who called it o̱ssi tamaha ("Eagle"). Eagletown was an important town from 1834 to 1906, and after 1850, served as county seat for the Choctaw Nation's Eagle County . The town name was officially changed to "Eagle Town" in 1850, then changed to the present Eagletown in 1892. When Indian Territory

1144-554: The Raeburn lands, attractive to developers. George Lauder, the great-grandfather of Sir Harry Lauder , had also purchased St. Bernard's Well and surrounding land in April 1812 from Francis Garden Campbell of Troup & Glenlyon. His eldest surviving son is described in the Edinburgh Annual Post Office Directories as "William Lauder of St.Bernards Well, farmer" until his death in nearby Saunders Street in 1858. He

1188-405: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Robert Stockbridge , a fictional character TV show Upstairs, Downstairs Sara Stockbridge (born 1966), English model, actress, and author William Stockbridge (1782–1850), American merchant and ship owner Other uses [ edit ] Stockbridge damper , a device for suppressing wind-induced vibration on power lines Stockbridge Indians ,

1232-441: The Water of Leith. Hamilton Place holds both the local library (1898) and primary school (1874). Saxe Coburg Street, a small Georgian cul-de-sac just to the north, leads to the small and bow-ended square of Saxe Coburg Place. This formal space was never completed due to ground level problems and Glenogle Baths (1898) To the north, St Bernard's Row leads out past another little Georgian cul-de-sac, Malta Terrace, to Inverleith and

1276-572: The improved well to the city as a landmark. St Bernard's F.C. , a once successful Scottish team but now defunct were named after the famous well and played in Stockbridge. The mosaic interior is by Thomas Bonnar . The superiority of much of the St Bernard's estate was purchased in the 1790s by Sir Henry Raeburn, who almost immediately began selling it off by feu charters, although he continued to live in St. Bernard's House until his death in 1823. (The house

1320-505: The late Victorian period, joins the village to the western sections of the New Town: St Bernards Crescent; Carlton Street; Danube Street, Ann Street and Dean Terrace. To the north of this is a less formal area of narrower streets: Dean Street; Cheyne Street; Raeburn Street and Dean Park Street. The north-eastern route out of the area, towards Leith , runs along Hamilton Place. Dean Bank spurs off this road, running alongside

1364-520: The number of people here had grown by 1,500. The Choctaws invited some of the white missionaries to join them in the move to Indian Territory. The first of these was Rev. Loring S. Williams, who was sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1832. By July 1832, Williams established a station he called Bethabara on the west bank of the Mountain Fork River. The crossing

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1408-508: The proprietor for about thirty years after the Second World War, was fined 47 times for living off immoral earnings. She is remembered as a local legend, and was also a good friend of Madame Doubtfire. The success of Stockbridge as an urban environment led to the area being shortlisted by The Academy of Urbanism for the award 'Great Neighbourhood of the Year: 2009'. On 15 May 2008, Stockbridge

1452-554: The river. Hundreds of people turn out every year to cheer for their duck. The community council which covers Stockbridge is Stockbridge and Inverleith Community Council (also covering Comely Bank ). Notable Stockbridge residents have included: Because of its picturesque qualities, Stockbridge has often been used as a location in film and television dramas. For example: – Mary Reilly ; North & South ; Women Talking Dirty (directed by Coky Giedroyc ); Rebus ; Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Madame Doubtfire lived and ran

1496-534: The southern edge of the Silvermills area. It was designed by the architect William Playfair in 1827. It is unusual for its main church being raised by a storey, accessed by a tall but relatively narrow flight of steps at its frontage. Its clock pendulum is the longest in Europe. The church stands at the eastern end of St Stephen Street, a curving Georgian street of inhabited basement flats with ground floors accommodating

1540-520: The time and was, apparently, fascinated by the name. She used it for her novel Madame Doubtfire which was turned into the film, though the Robin Williams character Mrs. Doubtfire bears no resemblance to the Stockbridge original. Madame Doubtfire's favourite saying was "walls have ears". One of Scotland's best known brothels was located in Danube Street, Stockbridge. Dora Noyce (1900–1977),

1584-420: The title Stockbridge . 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=Stockbridge&oldid=1174506316 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

1628-465: The village to St Cuthbert's Church at the west end of Princes Street . One building close to the Stockbridge end, predates the New Town. It is a merchant's house built about 1790 from the stones of demolished buildings in the Old Town and was the birthplace of the painter David Roberts , who worked as a scene painter at Edinburgh's Theatre Royal and later London's Covent Garden. Leslie Place, dating from

1672-445: The well were held in high repute for their medicinal qualities, and the nobility and gentry took summer quarters in the valley to drink deep draughts of the water and take the country air. In 1788 Lord Gardenstone , a wealthy Court of Session law lord, who thought he had benefited from the mineral spring, commissioned Alexander Nasmyth to design a new pump room and ornate structure over. The builder John Wilson began work in 1789. It

1716-476: Was buried in Dean Cemetery . In 1884 St. Bernard's Well was purchased and presented to his fellow Edinburgh townsmen by the publisher William Nelson, after it had been restored and redecorated by Thomas Bonnar , with a new statue of Hygieia , carved by David Watson Stevenson . Dean Terrace and Ann Street today overlook the valley and Well. The well closed to the public in the 1940s, but was restored in 2013 and

1760-577: Was chosen from a selection of 10 neighbourhoods to proceed as one of the three finalists. The area is covered by Stockbridge and Inverleith Community Council as well as the City of Edinburgh Council . Stockbridge is located in the Edinburgh North and Leith Westminster constituency , currently represented by Deidre Brock of the SNP , and in the Edinburgh Central Holyrood constituency , currently represented by Angus Robertson , also of

1804-401: Was demolished in 1826 to make way for the east side of Carlton Street). In the opening years of the 19th century George Lauder of Inverleith Mains also acquired parts of these lands as evidenced by a charter whereby "Henry Raeburn, as retoured heir to Sir Henry Raeburn, Knight, Portrait Painter, Edinburgh, his father, was seised on the 19 March 1824 in a piece of ground for the purpose of making

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1848-513: Was marked by a very large cypress tree that was called "the oldest tree in Oklahoma", dating back to before the Christian Era. He organized the first church in Choctaw country in 1834 and opened a school the next year. He also obtained the authority to establish a post office in 1834, and served as the first postmaster. The post office and the town were then known as "Eagle Town." The name of both

1892-462: Was officially changed to "Eagletown" on December 16, 1892. Another missionary, Reverend Cyrus Byington , arrived in late 1835. Byington spent 31 years here, and was noted for translating both religious and secular materials into a written Choctaw language that he created. He established the Stockbridge Mission on the other (east) side of the river from Bethabara. He was most noted for producing

1936-413: Was preparing to unite with Oklahoma Territory to form the new state of Oklahoma in 1906, Eagletown lost its county seat status and became just another unincorporated community in the new McCurtain County. Some white settlers had moved to the area near Mountain Fork River around the present Eagletown during the early 19th Century, when the area was known as Miller County, Arkansas . but a boundary change in

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