VESTRAFIOLD, hill in Sandwick parish, Orkney.
VEYATTIE, lake, 3| miles long, terminating at 5 miles east-south-east of Lochinver, on south-west verge of Sutherland.
VIA, place, with cromlech, in Sandwick parish, Orkney.
VICARLAND, , section of Cambuslang town, Lanarkshire.
VICTORIA (LOWER), section or suburb of Carnoustie, Forfarshire.
VIEWFIELD, seat in Nairn parish, Nairnshire.
VIGEANS (ST.), village and parish on east coast of Forfarshire. The village stands about a mile north of Arbroath, and is ancient but small. The parish contains also Auchinithie, Collistonmill, Marywell, and Gowanbank villages, and fully one-half of Arbroath burgh. It includes two detached districts and 3 miles south of the main body, measures 8 miles by 4J in the main body, and comprises altogether 12,731 acres. Heal property of landward parts in 1880-81, 23,928. Pop. of the whole, quoad civilia, 14,982 ; quoad sacra, 1821. The coast, from the northern boundary to within a mile of Arbroath, is a range of rocky, precipitous, cavernous cliffs ; and the interior is a valley enclosed by three reaches of declivity in different aspects. Chief seats are Lefcham, Abbethune, Seaton, Newton, Parkhill, Springfield, Almericlose, Millbank, Colliston, Woodlands, Beechwood, and Hospitalfield. The parochial church was erected about 1200, underwent restoration at a cost of fully 3000 in 1872, and possesses great antiquarian and architectural interest. A chapel-of-ease is in Auchmithie, and numerous churches are in Arbroath. Four schools for 427 scholars are under a joint board for the landward parts of St. Vigeans and Arbroath, and 1 of them for 150 is new.
VIKISTILL, harbour in south-east of Coll Island, Ayrshire.
VINAVORE, small island in southern part of Loch Roag, in west part of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
VINAY, small island in Bracadale parish, Isle of Skye.
VINCENT (ST.), quoad sacra parish in Glasgow. Pop. 8085.
VINNEY, rivulet, running 8 miles east-north-eastward to the Lunan at 8 miles east of Forfar.
VIRKIE, hamlet in south of Shetland. It has a post office under Lerwick.
VOE, place, 19 miles from Lerwick, Shetland. It has a post office under Lerwick.
VOETER, harbour in Delting parish, Shetland.
VOGRIE, estate, 3 miles south-east-by-south of Dalkeith, Edinburghshire.
VOIL, lake, about 3 miles long, in Balquhidder parish, Perthshire.
VORD.
VOTTERSAY, small island in Harris Sound, Outer Hebrides.
VRAE, hill in north of Turriff parish Aberdeenshire.
VRINE, narrow lake, about 2J miles long, and streamlet going thence 3 miles north-eastward to the Mashak at 10 miles south-south-east of Ullapool, in west of Ross-shire.
VROGIE, streamlet, descending from Buachail-Etive Mountain, and proceeding to Etive river, in Ardchattan parish, Argyleshire. It has a precipitous course, and it makes a cascade very remarkable both for great depth and for wild rocky environments.
WACHENWAE, spring, emitting Cadzow burn, in Glassford parish, Lanarkshire.
WADEHAVEN, harbour at Elie, on south coast of Fife.
WAIROWS, lakelet in Wick parish, Caithness.
WAITH, bridge on efflux of Loch Sten ness, in south-west of Pomona, Orkney.
WALESAY, farm, traversed by Roman road, in Avondale parish, Lanarkshire.
WALKERBURN, modern manufacturing town on the Tweed, 2 miles east of Innerleithen, Peeblesshire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Peeblesshire, a rail-way station, an Established church of 1876, and a public school with about 144 scholars. Pop. 1026.
WALKINGSHAW, estate, 2J miles north of Paisley, Renfrewshire.
WALLACE HALL, large endowed classical school in Closeburn parish, Dumfriesshire.
WALLACE-MEMORIALS, either objects associated with Sir William Wallace's history, or structures erected to his memory. Some of these are the Ban-el or cave in Bothwell parish; caves in Lasswade, Torphichen, and Lesmahagow parishes ; chair at Bonniton near Lanark ; cradle on hill, 2 miles south-by-west of Linlithgow; house at Elderslie in Renfrewshire ; larder at Ardrossan ; leap in Roseneath parish ; knowe in Lochwinnoch parish ; monument on Abbeycraig near Stirling ; oaks at Elderslie and at Torwood ; seats in Biggar, Kilbarchan, and Dumbarton parishes; statues at Lanark and adjacent to the Tweed near Dryburgh ; stone in Polmont parish ; towers in Ayr town, Roxburgh parish, Auchterhouse parish, and Dumfriesshire Kirkmichael parish ; trench in Kincardine-in-Monteith parish ; and well in Biggar parish.
WALLACETOWN, suburb of Ayr. It compactly adjoins east side of Newton, forms part of Ayr burgh, is separated from Ayr-proper by only Ayr river, was nearly all built subsequent to 1760, and contains 8 places of worship and a very large public school. Pop. 5923.
WALLACETOWN, village in south border of Polmont parish, Stirlingshire. Pop. with Lawyett, 252.