Stockleigh takes its name from Devon, England, honouring pioneer Will Elworthy's birthplace after he and George Hawkins took up land here on 1 September 1863. The Hawkins family later built the substantial homestead Sunnyside in 1885, and a provisional school opened in 1873, serving children from both sides of the Logan River until it closed in 1935. The district turned to dairying, with milk and cream carried across the Maclean Bridge to the Kingston dairy factory, a trade that defined Stockleigh well into the 20th century.

That dairying history is still physically present on a lot of properties: old milking sheds, bails, feed stores and fencing that in many cases predate the current house by decades. Timber structures that old, especially ones that haven't been used for their original purpose in years, are a common place for termite activity to establish quietly. More recently, Stockleigh has added an environmental park and a small housing estate in the east of the locality, near Logan Village, bringing a different kind of property into the same suburb.

For pest control purposes, that means a Stockleigh job can look very different depending on which part of the suburb you're in: a working farm property with 100-year-old sheds, or a recently built home near Logan Village. We assess which one we're dealing with before recommending treatment.