Stonebyres, a mansion in Lesmahagow parish, Lanarkshire, 3 furlongs from the left bank of the Clyde, and 3 miles W of Lanark. A lofty semi-Baronial edifice, it was mainly rebuilt by the late James Monteath, Esq., from designs by Mr Baird of Glasgow; but its oldest portion, embraced in the modern structure, is ascribed to the 14th century, and has walls 8 to 10 feet high. The ancient banqueting-hall is the finest perhaps in the county. The estate - comprising now 825 acres, of £1091 annual value - was held by the Weirs or Veres from the 15th century till 1842, when it was sold to Mr Monteath. He was succeeded by his kinsman, Gen. Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas, K.C.B. (1787-1868), whose only surviving daughter in 1861 married Sir William Monteath Scott, Bart. of Ancrum. Stonebyres Linn, the last and broadest of the Falls of Clyde, 1 ¹/8 mile below Lanark Bridge, bears a general resemblance to Corra Linn, but is commonly admitted to be of a less striking character. Like Corra Linn it encounters two ledges of rock, but in spates the water seems to fall in one unbroken sheet from a height of 70 or 80 feet into the deep `Salmon Pool,' beyond which the fish can never ascend. Seen from below, the dark shelving rocks and the wooded banks of the stream present an exquisite contrast to the snowy foam of the cataract.—Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1863.

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