Stobs Castle, a fine mansion in the upper section of Cavers parish, Roxburghshire, near the right bank of Slitrig Water, and ¾ mile S by E of Stobs station on the Waverley route of the North British railway, this being 4 miles S of Hawick, under which there is a post office of Stobs. In 1666 Gilbert Eliott of Stobs, the grandson of `Gibby wi' the gouden gartins,' received a baronetcy; and his youngest great-grandson, George Augustus, K.B. (1718-90), the gallant defender of Gibraltar, was created Lord Heathfield in 1787. Sir William Francis - Augustus Eliott, eighth Bart. (b. 1827; suc. 1864), holds 16, 475 acres in the shire, valued at £8934 per annum. See Wells.—Ord. Sur., sh. 17, 1864.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)