STONEYHILL, a hamlet, in the parish of Inveresk,
county of Edinburgh, § a mile (W. S. W.) from Musselburgh;
containing 36 inhabitants. The lands of Stoneyhill
were formerly possessed by a family named Dobie,
and subsequently by Sir William Sharp, son of the wellknown
Archbishop of St. Andrew's: they afterwards
came, together with the lands of Monktonhall, and the
coal under the whole lordship of Inveresk, to the Earl
of Werayss. Stoneyhill House is in the vicinity of the
hamlet.