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ST. ANDREW STREET	D.1827. "This part of the town anciently called St. Leonard's".t.t.l. 193, o.& n.e. iii. 226. Old name Dubb-row, K.223, w.o.l. 204.
ST. ANTHONY LANE PLACE	From ancient church dedicated to St. Anthony. There was also St. Anthony's port in the wall of the foot erected by D'Esse in 1548, t.t.l 6, o.& n.e. iii. 217. St. Anthony St., p.w. 1780/81, 107. Kirkgate, D.1800, 76, D.1827. Kirkwood. t.t.l. 151. "St. Anthony's Court", D.1800, 241. Hospital of St. Anthony (of Egypt) built by Robert Logan, 1430, first of the Logans of Restalrig through his wife Katherine, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Lestalric, who died 1382, j.r.s.l. 105.
ST. BERNARDS CRESCENT PLACE ROW	From legendary but unidentified St. Bernard, who occupied a cave near the mineral well or spring, of which he drank. The statue and temple of Hygeia built by Lord Gardenstone, May 1789. Mineral well discovered by three boys of Heriot's Hospital before 1760, o.& n. e. iii. 74-75. Lora Gardenstone died 22/7/1793. St. Bernard's Row, m.t.c. 6/1/1813. Villa of St. Bernard's, on bank of Water of Leith, once a mineral well, e.e.c. 8/2/1796.
ST. CATHERINE'S PLACE	From the convent of St. Catherine of Siena, founded 1517 by Janet, widow of George, third Lord Seton, slain at Flodden, 1513, destroyed by the English 1544, and the occupants evicted 1567, o.e.c. x. 54.
ST. CLAIR TERRACE	Fancy, no connection with anything, g.l.b.
ST. COLME STREET	From one of the titles of the Earl of Moray, on whose ground it was built. The Earl of Moray was commendator of Inchcolm in the middle of the 16th century, o.& n.e ii. 205.
ST. DAVID'S STREET	Compliment to the national, or patron saint of Wales, Ainslie 1780. Not from David Hume, who built his house at the corner of St. Andrew Sq. despite the story that ere the name was painted on the street, Rev. D. Webster, or the daughter of Chief Baron Orde, o.& n.e. ii. 161, chalked up on the house front, "St. David's St" as a hit at the philosopher's infidelity. When informed of this by his servant lass, he remarked quietly, "Never mind-I am not the first man of sense that has been made a saint of", Walks in Edinr. 183. In his Autobiography, Blackwood & Sons 1860, p.276, "Jupiter" Carlyle states that David and Miss Nancy Ord got a workman to paint on the cornerstone of the house which he had built in the S.W. corner of St. Andrew Sq., "St. David's St." where it remains to this day, o.& n. e. ii. 160. St. Davids St., m.t.c. 15/4/1772. Home or Hume died 1/7/1771. Direction by Town Council that names of streets in New Town be painted on corner houses, m.t.c. 24/5/1780, 17/12/1788.
ST. DAVID'S PLACE TERRACE	From the parish church. Office block built on site of Church - 1973.
ST. FILLAN'S TERRACE	Baseless, fancy, g.l.b.
ST. GILES STREET	From its proximity to Collegiate Church of St. Giles, dated 1875. Original name proposed for Princes' St. q.v.
ST. JAMES' PLACE	Possibly from James VIII, by fervent but cautious Jacobites, o.e.c. ii. 172, who hid the King under the Saint, letting a hint occur in King St., now Little King St., q.v. St. James, Ainslie 1780, do. 1804, Lothian Map 1825. Ord. Surv. 1852. "James", Denovan 271. Scots. Mag. 1814, p.1, map, m.t.c. thrice 28/2/1810. Areas to feu, with advantages enumerated, apply to Walter Ferguson, writer, the proprietor. Gavenlock's land, head of Lawnmarket, e.e.c. 3/2/1781. Complaint in Edinburgh Evening Courant, 6/7/1810, of local confusion by resident in the square, there are St. James Sq: St. James St: two North St. James Streets: South St. James Street, East St. James St., West St. James St.; also St. James Pi. and St. James lane. The name suggests "Ideas of courtly splendour and royal magnificence", but the confusion is great. St. Jarnes Centre now on this site not including St. James Place. See also St. James Centre-Part II.
ST. JOHN'S STREET	Named from St. John's Close so named from the Cross of St. John, in the High Street of the Canongate, which marked one corner of the Temple lands of the Canongate, a triangular enclosure with its apex on St. John's Hill,o.e.c. i. 16. The close seems to have been known also as Paterson's Close, although no alias is given, which is described as just west of St. John's Street and containing the property of the late George Paterson, architect, Can. Chart. 8/8/1821. John Paterson, architect, was resident in St. John's Street in 1780; Paterson's Close was separated by a march dyke from the houses on the west side of the top of St. John's Street," Can. Chart. 9/9/1829.
ST. LEONARDS BANK LANE HILL STREET	From the ancient chapel of St. Leonard, which stood on what is now Mount Hooly. St. Leonard's hill, Ainslie 1780. The present St. Leonard's Hill was originally "Holyrood St", the name is cut on the corner of Carnegie St. "The village of St. Leonard's, " m.t.c. 24/5/1747, Street called St. Leonard's or Pleasance, m.t.c. 17/1/1797, 6/11/1822,, 28/3/1832. Village of St. Leonard's, m.t.c. 16/11/1814. Streets of St. Leonard and St. Leonard's Vennel, c.c. 850, 4/6/1517. Village of St. Leonard's, Can. Chart. 24/5/1797.
ST. MARGARET'S ROAD	From its proximity to St. Margaret's Convent, 1834, o.e.c. x. 31, in which is enshrined a bit of the backbone of St. Margaret of Scotland obtained by Bishop Giles from Madrid, in the early part of the 19th century, o.e.c. v. 61. Founded 1832.
ST. MARK'S PLACE	From St. Mark's episcopal church, opened May 1825.
ST. MARY'S STREET	Formerly Wynd, Edgar. Ainslie. Kerr. It takes its name from a chapel and convent dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which included a hospital, at the head of the wynd, on the west side. These were destroyed, probably about 1572, o.& n.e. i. 297; Wilson, ii. 125, and must not be confused with the convent of St. Mary of Placentia, which lay south of the line of the Cowgate and South Back of the Canongate, and to which the Pleasance is supposed, to owe its name, WiIson, ii. 125. There was a tenement of land of old called the church or chapel of St. Mary, lying beyond the Netherbow on the south side of the King's High Street, in the vennal called St. Mary's Wynd, on the west side, entering from the foot of the World's End Close, m.t.c. 26/4/1826. The lands of the Hospital of the Blessed Mary were in St. Mary's Wynd, Prot. 12/9/1528. The Hospital of St. Mary was at the top of the Wynd on the west side, Prot. W.F.5, 7/8/1751. James Makalyeane, burgess, sold to the matrons or hospitallers of the Hospital of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sanct Mary Wynd an annual rent of a booth in the Buthraw (Luckenbooths), C.C.943, 25/2/1522-3. Butler, Tron Kirk, 45, quotes Spottiswoode as authorit, for the derivation of the name, in 'Religious Houses' 1755, p.283. Maitland, M.9, c.2. quotes a charter of 3rd October 1477 in which Sanct Mary Wynde is mentioned. The poverty of the hospital in 1499 is also alluded to by him, M. 10, c. 2.
ST. NINIANS TERRACE	Baseless, fancy, g.1.b.
ST. PATRICK'S SQUARE STREET	Planned, Ainslie 1804. Complete, Lothian Map 1825. Partly built before 28/6/1783, eec.js. Property thereabouts owned by Patrick Tod, 1767. Kirkwood 1817 shows west side planned property of David Wemyss. Formerly the four sides bore the name.
ST. PETER'S BUILDINGS PLACE	From St. Peters United Free Church, generally known from its local position, as "Viewforth".
ST. RONAN'S TERRACE	Baseless, fancy, g.l.b.
ST. STEPHEN'S PLACE STREET	From St. Stephen's Parish Church.
ST. THOMAS ROAD	From Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, superior of the Grange estate.
ST. VINCENT STREET	From the naval victories of Rodney, 1780, and Lord Howe, 1794, Ainslie 1804, m.t.c. 6/8/1823.
SALAMANDER STREET	From the fiery glass and chemical works there, suggesting what single type of creature could live there. The first cones or furnaces were erected by the Bottle House Coy. in 1740 on the sands, near Salamander St., Irons, ii. 143. D. 1827. See also Salamander Place-Part II.
SALISBURY PLACE ROAD STREET	D.1827. Lothian Map 1825. From the Salisbury Craigs. Arnot derives the name from the Earl of Salisbury, who accompanied Edward III in his invasion of Scotland in 1327 or 1333, Arnot 309. Anon. Map 1730. Salisbury St., New. Pict. Edin. 1820 map, not in do. do. 1818. Salisbury Terrace between Arthur St. and Prospect PI. facing the Salisbury Craigs. Salisbury Road, m.t.c. 16/11/1814. Salisbury Pl., m.t.c. 24/3/1819. Lord Hailes derives the name from seles, a wilderness, Reekiana 38.
SANDFORD GARDENS	From Bishop Sandford of Edinburgh who inducted the Rev. George M. Drummond as first minister in St. Marks Episcopal Church, Baird 459. The Episcopal chapel stood at its west end, where now stands the R.C. church, w.b.
SANDPORT STREET	From the old gate opening to the sands, D.1827. From the port or gate in the rampart of Monsieur D'Esse leading out to the Short Sands, where the Custom House now is, j.r.s.l. 271, 1549.See also Sandport Place-Part II.
SAUGHTON AVENUE CRESCENT	From the old mansion of Saughton, suggestive of willows by the Water of Leith, owned and occupied by generations of the Bairds, a branch of the house of Auchmedden, o.& n.e. iii. 319. Saughtonhall, c.c. 4318, 23/2/1470-1.See also Saughton Gardens etc. -Part II.
SAUGHTONHALL DRIVE	As Saughton. See also Saughtonhall Avenue etc.-Part II.
SAUNDERS STREET	D.1829-30. Possibly connected with John Saunders who acquired property in Leith from (Sir) Henry Raeburn, painter, m.t.c. 14/2/1827.
SAXE-COBURG PLACE	D. 1827. Planned and partly built, Lothian Map 1825. Almost complete, Ord. Surv. Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg married 1816 Charlotte, only daughter of George IV, then Regent, she died 1817. He visited Edinburgh that year and again in 1819, when he opened the Regent Bridge, (q.v. also Leopold Place). Edward, Duke of Kent married 1818, Victoria, princess of Saxe Coburg; their daughter, Victoria born 1819 succeeded to the throne, 1837 as "Queen Victoria", e.o.t. lviii. 41. Anderson 333, 339.See also Saxe-Coburg Street-Part II.
SCIENNES GARDENS PLACE ROAD HILL PLACE STREET	From the Convent of St. Catherine of Siena (sometimes confused with St. Catherine of Alexandria). Built 1517. Destroyed 1559. Pronounced SHEENS, o.e.c. x. 163. Scienes, p.w. 1780/81, 10. D. 1827. See St. Catherines Pl., Ainslie 1804, o.& n.e. iii. 52. "Shiens", m.t.c. 14/12/1791. Sciennes Loan, m.t.c. 27/3/1799. Now Sciennes Road "Locus olim sororum monatium de Sheens", Prot. 13/2/1734, G.I. 2.
SCOTLAND STREET	Complimentary to our own country,D.1827. First name proposed Caledonia St., Ainslie 1804, where Dublin St. is Hibernia St. Lothian Map has Scotland and Dublin Streets, 1825, m.t.c. 13/10/1819.
SEAFIELD AVENUE PLACE ROAD STREET	From district and house, D.1827. o.& n.e. iii. 266, map 233.
SEAVIEW TERRACE	Evident. See also Seaview Crescent-Part II.
SEMPILL'S CLOSE	Or Semple's Close, (Williamson's Close). From the old mansion at the foot of the close, bearing the date 1638. It was occupied prior to 1734 by Grissel, Lady Semple, widow of Francis, 8th Lord Semple; and was acquired in 1743 by Hugh, 11th Lord Semple, the original owner being David Brown. In 1755 it was conveyed to Sir John Clerk of Penicuik and others, trustees for the creditors of Lady Semple's brother Archibald, 1st Earl of Rosebery, Prot. G.H.1 0, 27/2/1734. It is now used as kitchen, etc., for the New College. Ainslie. Kirkwood. Kerr The close seems to have borne also the name of Williamson's Close, from a small house in 'Williamson's Close', and tenement at the head of Jollie's Close (q.v.) owned by Joseph Williamson, advocate, Reg. 9/5/1859, 10/9/1860. There was a dwelling-house on the north side of the High Street, owned and rebuilt by Hugh, Lord Semple, who was succeeded by John, Lord Semple; and he by Sir James Clerk of Penicuik, who disponed it to Mr. Williamson of Foxhall, Prot. W.F.9, 2/9/1760. (Foxhall was at the east side of the head of the Mound, Reg. 9/5/1859). These Williamsons seem to have been connected with those of Leven Lodge, and Foxton alias Taxton, alias Golfhall, near Wrightshouses.
SEMPLE STREET COURT CLOSE	Ainslie 1804. Lothian Map 1825. From local proprietor, Kirkwood. Robert Semple, brewer, Castle Barns, p.w. 1773 and 1780/1. Mr. Semple's brewery, eec.j.s. 9/2/1782. D.1827. Property owned 1726 by Campbell: afterwards by Semple: now by heirs of Robert Semple, v.r.44. Robert Semple, late brewer, Castlebarns, m.t.c. 20/3/1811. Semple St., m.t.c. 10/10/1821. Robt. Sempill, brewer, Castlebarns, Prot. 21/8/1810.
SETON PLACE	From maiden name of the grand mother of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall married in 1696 his cousin, Margaret Seton. Wm. Dick, 3rd Baron of Grange married Anna, third daughter of Sir Alexander Seton of Pitmedden, St. G.
SHANDWICK PLACE	m.t.c. 2/5/1810 and 15/3/1809. The north side of Maitland St. Not in Ainslie 1804, where a winding roadway is shown, but in Lothian Map 1825. To feu, garden ground at end of Princes St. belonging to John Cockburn Ross of Shandwick, north side, from Queensferry Road to be in straight line along the new Glasgow Road, e.e.c. 4/9/1806. Not shown by Kirkwood. Plan in Record Office, Register House, of new road from Whitehouse Toll (beyond Haymarket) to Kirkbraehead, Morison's property on S. Mr. Walker's on N. Mr. Ross' on N. Mr. Fraser's between Mr. Ross' on N. and Mrs. Stewart's, on S. These are shown on Ainslies's plan of 1804. What is now the south side of Shandwick Place, was named East Maitland St. till 1899-1900.
SHAWS PLACE SQUARE TERRACE STREET	From James Shaw, house agent, who feued the ground. His office in 1877 in 6 York Pl., j.r.
SHERIFF BRAE	Shirra-brae, Coalhill to King St., D.1827. So called in 1572, t.t.l 219. "Sheref Bray", 15 Sept. 1574, Irons 1.393. do. ii. 322. "Mansion house commonly called Sheriffbrae", m.t.c. 30/9/1835, 10/9/1823. "Sherra Brae", s.s.l. 68. The Sheriff brae,e.a. 6/1/1764. Jas. Logan infest in S. to umq. John L. of Cowstoun, in lands, viz. mansion called the Shrefbrae in Leith: tent. called the Culles: land called the Hauche: lands etc. called the catchpell: land in vennell called the Hill,m.t.c. 14/11/1649.
SHORE	On the shore, or east bank, of the Water of Leith, D. 1827.
SHORE ROAD	Descriptive.
SHRUB HILL PLACE LANE	D. 1827. Old name of locality, o.& n.e. iii. 155. A "villa", o.& n.e.163. D. 1800, 257. Its position, see Ainslie's map 1804 and Lothian Map 1825, suggests a connection with the Physic, or Botanic Gardens. Shrub House, Ord. Surv. 1852. Shrub Place, m.t.c. 9/1/1828. Shrub hill, Leith Walk, D. 1799. Wm. Wilson, sherub hill, Leith Walk, D. 1799-1800.
SILVERMILLS	D. 1827. Anslie 1804. From the mills erected for extracting silver from the ore produced at Blderstone, West Lothian, belonging to Tam O' the Cowgate, the Earl of Haddington 1607. Chambers quoted by o.& n.e. iii. 83. Wilson, ii. 208, suggests alchemical projects of James IV or James V. Baird 104 quotes o.& n.e. iii. 83. Silvermills St., Stockbridge, 21/4/1827, eec.j.s. D. 1827.
SIMON SQUARE	See Symon Square.
SLATEFORD ROAD	Leads to the village of Slateford.
SLEIGH DRIVE	From Lord Provost, Sir Wm. Sleigh, 1926.See also Sleigh Gardens-Part II.
SLOANE STREET	From Baille Sloane, contractor, j.r. See also South Sloan Street-Part II.
SMITH'S PLACE	From local proprietor, Kirkwood. For sale, apply to James Smith, Leith l6/4/1814,eec.j.s. Chas. Smith & Co., grocers there, D.1822
SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS	Cowgate. From the society of Solicitors to the Supreme Courts, who own the buildings, and whose Library etc. occupy the upper part, having access from the Parliament House.
SOUTH BRIDGE	(High St. to Nicolson St., D.1827). The bridge over the Cowgate, lying to the South of the High St. Built l785-1786. Finished l788. Foundation laid at bottom of fishmarket, between Merfin's Wynd and Niddrie's Wynd, Caled. Merc. 18/7/1785. j.s. o.& n. e. 1.374. Named Cowgate Bridge, Ainslie 1780. South Bridge St., Ainslie l8O4. Building proposed, Scots. Mag. 1775. Proposed in Town Council 11/10/1775. First suggestion in anonymous pamphlet, m.t.c. 26/1/1785. Application made for Parliamentary bill 18/2/1785. Open for traffic 11/7/1788. Took the place of Niddrie's Wynd, Martin's Wynd, Peebles Wynd, and Kennedy's Close, m.t.c. 21/1/1789.
SOUTH CLERK STREET	See Clerk Street.
SOUTHFIELD PLACE VILLAS	From old house, Kirkwood, Braid map 89.
SOUTH FOULIS CLOSE	Fowler's Close, Edgar; Foulis Close, Ainslie 1780, Kerr; Foules Close, Kirkwood; South Foulis' Close, D. 1827; Purves' Close, Reg. 19/12/1756; Power's Close, error for Purvis: Prot. W.F. 7, 12/3/1756; Mowbray's Close, Prot. W.F. 7, 12/3/1756; Alexr. Uddart's Close, Prot. W.F.7, 12/3/1756. It took its name from Sir James Foulis of Colinton, whose acquisition of the property therein is thus given: Pro Domino Jacobo Foullis de Collingtown. Tenement formerly of Hugh Tod, merchant, burgess, on the south of the High Street, waste land and yard of umquhyle John Gray and Walter Scott on the south: land, built and waste, now of heirs of umquhyle John Purves and John Charters on the north: waste land of umquhyle Andrew Mowbray, thereafter of umquhyle Alexr.Udward on the east of Gray's Close; Sir James being son to the late Sir James, by his spouse Barbara Ainslie, Prot. A.W.3, 22/7/1710, of Dolphinton. It was also called Purves' Close, Purves, now Foulis' Close, south side of High Street: Prot. A.W.4, 3/12/1711; W.F.11,28/10/1762,as containing the tenement of John Purves, Prot. W.F.11, 26/11/1762, burgess, Prot. A.W.8, 8/5/1727. A tenement stood on the south side of the High Street, within the 'Arcus Inferiores', note the plural form, having the lands of the late Andrew Purves on the east, Reg. 4/2/1744. It is described as Purves' Close above the Netherbow, having Charteris' Close on the west, Prot. A.W. 6, 10/2/1721. It occurs also as Power's Close, Prot. W.F. 7, 12/3/1756, and Powrie's Close, Prot. A. W.4, 8/2/1712, evidently variants of Purves. (There was another Purves Close on the north side of the High Street, alias Bryson's or Trunk's.) It was called also Moubray's Close, from the lands of the late Robert Moubray on the east side of the close, Moubray's, now Fouls's Close: Prot. W.F. 7, 12/3/1756. Mr. Walter Moubray owned a tenement in the close, Prot. A. W.2, 19/3/1706, and Andrew Moubray had lands on the east, Prot. G.H. 4, 20/12/1710. Though no distict alias has been found, this close seems to be the same as Alexr. Uddart's or Udwart's Close, which is mentioned, Prot. W. F. 7, 12/3/1756; A. W.8, 24/2/1728, as if identical with Moubray's now Fouls's Close, which contained lands and yard of Alexr. Uddart at the foot of the close.
SOUTH GRAY'S CLOSE	Vicus Graii, Gordon; Gray's or Mint Close, Edgar; Gray's Close, Ainslie 1780; Mint Close, Ainslie 1804; South Gray's Close, Kirkwood. Kerr; Skinners' Close, Prot. W.F.9, 2/7/1759; Coyne-House Close, o.& n. e. i. 270; Coinyie Close, Prot. W. F. 1, 8/1/1747. 'South' was added to 'Gray's' Close to distinguish it from the other Gray's Close on the north side of the High Street, with which it has no connection. It is named Gray's Close in a charter of 1512, with mention of umquhyle John Gray as the author of earlier titles, Wilson, ii. 65. The late John Gray owned waste land in Gray's Close, Prot. A.W. 3, 22/7/1710; Reg. 20/5/1857,and there was a tenement in the close occupied by Jane Gray, relict of Robert Hill, Prot. G.I. 1, 6/9/1763. John Gray and Walter Scott were former owners of lands acquired by James, Earl of Hyndford, Prot. G.H.4, 20/12/1710. From the fact that the Royal Mint or Cunyie House stood at the foot of the close till its demolition in 1877, the close got the name of the Mint Close, Edgar; Ainslie 1804, or 'Coinyie Close,'Grays, vel Mint, vel Conyt'e Closs: Prot. W.F.1, 8/1/1747, or, as it is given in George Heriot's will, 'the venall callit Gray's Clois or Coynehous cloise', o.& n. e., i. 270.
SPEY STREET	Pilrig. Originally Moray St., Kirkwood, D.1826/7, 1832/3. Moray St., D.1885/6. Spey St., 1886/7. See also Spey Gardens - Part II.
SPITTAL STREET	From Sir James Spittal, provost 1833-1837. Silk mercer, South Bridge, D.1827. Begun about 1835, Gilbert 215.
SPITTALFIELD CRESCENT	From the lands of the Hospital attached to the Chapel of St. Leonard, o.& n.e. i. 383. Ground to feu 1810, eec.j.s. Lothian Map 1825.
SPOTTISWOODE ROAD STREET	On the Warrender property. Sir George Warrender married Helen, daughter to Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, 5th Baronet, of Marchmont, Berwickshire, by his wife Margaret Penelope, married in 1834, daughter to John Spottiswoode of that Ilk.
SPRINGFIELD BUILDINGS STREET	Leith Walk. From an old row of houses of that name, before 1780. Springfield, Leith, b. w. 1780/81, 110. D. 1800/75, D. 1827, 64, m.t.c. 17/7/1816.
SPRINGVALLEY GARDENS TERRACE	House Spring Villa in Johnston's map, 1851. Also Ord. Surv. 1852.
SPYLAW ROAD	On ground of George Watson's Hospital, under the Gillespie Trust. The brothers James and John Gillespie owned and worked the snuff mill at Spylaw, Colinton, James residing there, and John attending to the shop in the Lawnmarket. John died 1792, and James 1797. See also Spylaw Avenue-Part II.
STANLEY STREET	Probably from Henry Morton Stanley, American journalist and African explorer, who "discovered" in 1870 David Livingstone, who had vanished in Africa, w.b.
STANWELL STREET	From Stanwell Lodge, Bonnington Road, D. 1827. Originally Standwell Lodge,jr.
STARBANK ROAD	D.1827. Starbank, m.t.c. 26/3/1823. From old Starbank House which stood there, j.r.
STEAD'S PLACE	To let or sell house fronting the (Leith) Walk, by Stead's Card Manufactory, 21/l/1792, eec.j.s. D. 1800, 103 & 240. Ainslie 1804. D. 1827, 176.
STEEL'S PLACE	From the house of Dr. Steel, Ord. Surv. 1852. Magnesia Works on Dr. Steel's property, Kirkwood. Feued by him from Wm. Mosman of Canaan, 1797, o.e.c. x. 207. See Tipperlinn Road.
STEVEN LAW'S CLOSE	Vicus Stepani Lawi, Gordon; Stanelaw's Close, Edgar; Stonelaw's Close,Ainslie. Kirkwood. Maitland. The name is probably that of Stephen Law or Loch, glazier, resident there in 1571, an adherent of Queen Mary,o.& n. e. ii. 242, or from Stewin Law, a wealthy fresher of the Queen's party, New Lights, 190. His name suffers under many forms, as shown above, or in connection with lands of umquhyle Stephen Law sive Stephen Lawder, Prot. G.H. 1 2, 10/5/1737. Stephen Law is Mentioned fairly frequently in the protocols. There was a tenement in Peebles Wynd with the lands of the late Stephen Law on the west, Prot. J. W.2, 24/6/1749; J.W.6, 9/1/1764. He also owned land at the Vennel of the Kirk of Field, Prot. 4/5/1529, and on the south side of the High Street, near the Upper Bow, c.c. 913, 29/10/1521. Various members of the family appear as owners of lands in the close: Griselda, Prot. G.I.2, 10/2/1734; Mariota or Marion, relict of John Stoddart, Prot. A. W.2, 28/3/1706; A. W.3, 31/1/1709; Reg. 14/1/1859; Margaret, Prot. A. W.4, 6/1/1714, and Robert, Prot G.H.13, 28/11/1739. It bore formerly the name of Telpher's Close, from the family of Taillyiefer, one of whom, Laurence Telfer, husband of the sister of John Carkettil, cousin to Andrew Halliburton, conservator of the Scots at Middleburg, left the close about the end of the sixteenth century, and settled on the north side of the High Street, in what was later Don's Close, q.v., New Lights, 190. Thus we find the lands of umquhyle Laurence Telfer, thereafter of Mr. Patrick Bannatyne in Tailyifiar's Close, with the lands of Stephen Law lying on the south, Prot. A.W. 3, 22/11/1710; A.W. 7, 8/8/1724. Marion Telfer owned property between Kennedy's Close and Peebles Wynd, Prot. W.F.8, 1756. It is also known as Kennedy's Close, confusing it with the close of that name immediately to the east. Tallyifiar's Close, now Kennedy's Close, containing 'croce' house formerly owned by late Quintain Kennedy, W.S.,Prot. A.W. 3, 22/11/1710; A.W. 7, 8/8/1724. One of the closes, possibly both, owned the two names, Telfer's or Kennedy's Close, Prot. G.H.10, 4/7/1734, 'Telfer's, now Kennedy's Close, but probably the large, thoroughfare close was the one known as Telfer's, Kennedy's, or Stephen Law's.
STRATHEARN PLACE ROAD	On Whitehouse estate, bought in 1819 by Grant of Kilgraston, in Strathearn, D.M.1860, o.e.c. x. 52. Strathearn Place not in Littlejohn.
STRATHFILLAN ROAD	Suggested by its neighbour, Strathearn Road.
SUCCOTH AVENUE GARDENS PLACE	From the Dunbartonshire estate of the Campbells of Succoth. Old charters give the forms Strekith, Scekith and Suketh, Jas. Stewart. Account of charges of Factors of third Marquis of Montrose, from 18/1/1680. Docqueted 10/6/1684. Among receipts, "Item from Succoth, £243". Also "Item from John Campbell of Succoth in name of the Earl of Argyl for a year's annual rent £1160". The factors, who sign are Christian Montrose, widow of said 3rd Marquis James (grandson of the famous Montrose) who died 25/4/1684. She was 2nd daughter of John Duke of Rothes, chancellor of Scotland. She marrried again May 1687 Sir John Bruce of Kinross: Charles, Earl of Haddington: William Hay of Drumelyier; and Sir Wm. Bruce of Kinoss. Signed by all four. Name of counter, or agent, is not given.
SUGARHOUSE	See Young Street.
SUMMERFIELD GARDENS	Old house, Kirkwood.
SUMMERHALL SQUARE	Lands and well frequented inn on east side of highway leading from Potterrow by the Sciennes to Liberton, owned by late Wm. Hall, teller, Royal Bank, 15/12/1773, eec.js. Somerhall, foot of Sciennes, 1800, 190. Sommerhall House, Ord. Surv. 1852. Summerhall icc, m.t.c. 17/10/1827. Jas. Hay, W.S., purchased from the heirs of deceased. Geo. Manson, wigmaker, part of the lands of St. Leonard, Summerhall, with small house. Allowed to enclose parterre, m.t.c. 12/8/1741.
SUMMERSIDE PLACE STREET	Suggested by the adjacent Summerfield, j.r.
SUNBURY MEWS PLACE STREET	Sunbury distillery, Water of Leith, D. 1827. The mane seems to occur in sasine 1/9/1690, r.c.g.19. Sunbury House, Ord. Surv. 1852. Whitewashed old mansion, demoished, w.o.l. 134. Lands of Sunbury, m.t.c. 20/9/1836.
SURGEON SQUARE	Back of High School, D. 1827. Infirmary St. immediately behind (to the north of) the old surgeons' hall, o & n.e. ii. 302. Shepherd 10, m.t.c. 13/12/1826
SYLVAN PLACE	D. 1827. Stands close to where the rill (which gives name to Rillbank Terrace and Crescent) ran down to the Burgh Loch, and was doubtless descriptively named. It lies just east of the Cage (a pavillion called the Meadow Cage), Ainslie 1804.
SYMON SQUARE	D. 1800, 85. Simon Square, D.1827. Ainslie 1824. Names from the builder.