Stonehouse
South Lanarkshire

The village of Stonehouse is located 3 miles (5 km) south of Larkhall in South Lanarkshire. There has been settlement here for over 2000 years, stone cists located in the grounds of St Ninian's church indicate this. Like many of the villages of the area, the history of Stonehouse is the history of weaving. Weaving was a vibrant industry for the village until the 1800s, when its demise led to the development of coal mining. Coal mining lasted here until the closure of the Canderigg Colliery in 1958. The weaver's cottages at the centre of the village are now part of a conservation area and sites of interest nearby include Sodom Hill, the scene of a Covenanters battle in 1679, an Iron Age fort at Double Dyke and St. Ninian's church, where The Bloodstone, with a seam of red ochre running through it, is a memorial to one of the martyrs of the Battle of Drumclog (1679).

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