WEMYSS-BAY, recently-erected coast town on Firth of Clyde, at terminus of branch railway, 8 miles south-west of Greenock, Renfrewshire. It takes its name from a slightly encurved bay ; stands on a belt of old raised sea-beach, in front of fissured sandstone cliffs ; ranks as a select watering-place ; consists chiefly of ornate villas; includes the mansion of Castle-Wemyss ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Renfrewshire, a railway station, a banking office, a hotel, a spacious steamboat pier, and a United Presbyterian church.
WEMYSS (EAST), village on the coast, 1J mile east of "West Wemyss, Fife. It contains "Wemyss parochial church. Pop. 895.
WEMYSS HALL, seat, 1J mile south of Cupar, Fife.
WEMYSS-SQUARE, village on west border of Aberdour parish, Fife.
WEMYSS (WEST), town on the coast, 2 miles north-east of Dysart, Fife. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Dysart, a harbour with recently-extended wet dock, a quoad sacra parochial church, and a Free church. Pop. of town, 1178 ; of quoad sacra parish, 1600.
WEST ARTHURLEE, etc.
WESTBANK, estate in Gladsmuir parish, Haddingtonshire.
WEST BARNS, etc.
WESTBURN, village in Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 372.
WEST COATES.
WESTER, rivulet and lake in north-east of Caithness. The rivulet runs about 10 miles eastward and south-south-eastward to Keiss Bay at 4f miles north of Wick ; and the lake is an expansion, about 1J rnile long, of the rivulet s lowmost reach.
WESTER, head-stream of Water-of-Leith, Edinburghshire.
WESTER ANSTRUTHER, etc.
WESTERDALE, seat and Free church in Halkirk parish, Caithness.
WESTERGATE, suburb of North Ber-wick, Haddingtonshire.
WESTERHALL, seat of Sir Frederick J. W. Johnstone, Bart., in Westerkirk parish, Dumfriesshire.
WESTERHOULL, village near Scalloway, in Tingwall parish, Shetland.
WESTERKIRK, parish, with church 4J miles north-west of Langholm, Dumfriesshire. Its length is 9 miles ; its greatest breadth 6| miles ; its area 26,992 acres. Keal property in 1880-81, 8187. Pop. 478. The Esk, running sinuously eastward, bisects the southern district. The land, along the Esk's course, is a narrow fertile vale ; and nearly all the rest of the surface is either hill or mountain. Chief residences are Westerhall, Burnfoot, and Hopesrigg ; and chief antiquities are remains of Caledonian stone circle, vestiges of many Roman camps, and remains of two Border peels There are 2 schools with jointly accommodation for 132 scholars.
WESTERN ISLANDS.
WESTERSIDE, moorland farm, with numerous small cairns, in Rathven parish Banffshire.
WESTERTON, seat near Bridge-of-Allan.
WESTERTON, seat near Elgin.
WESTERWOOD, place, with vestige of fort on Antoninus' Wall, in Cumbernauld parish, Dumbartonshire.
WESTFIELD, village in Clackmannan parish, Clackmannanshire.
WESTFIELD, hamlet in Cathcart parish, Renfrewshire.
WESTFIELD, village in Rattray parish, Perthshire. It has a post office under Blairgowrie.
WESTFIELD, railway station between Bathgate and Blackston Junction, Linlithgowshire.
WESTFIELD, seat in Cupar parish, Fife.
WESTFIELD, estate in New Spynie parish, Elginshire.
WESTHALL, village and estate adjacent to Oyne railway station, Aberdeen.
WESTHALL, site of ancient fortalice in Dunsyre parish, Lanarkshire.
WESTHAVEN, fishing suburb of Carnoustie, Forfarshire.
WESTHEAD, headland in western vicinity of Portsoy, Banffshire.
WESTHILL, place, with public school, in Skene parish, Aberdeenshire.
WESTHILL, site of Border peel in Gretna parish, Dumfriesshire.
WESTMAINS, site of Roman tumulus in Stonehouse parish, Lanarkshire.
WESTMILL, suburb of Lasswade, Edinburghshire.
WESTMOIN, section of Durness parish, Sutherland.
WESTMUIR, village in Kirriemuir parish, Forfarshire.
WESTMUIR, colliery in Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire.
WESTNESS, headland and seat in Rousay Island, Orkney.
WESTON, village, with ruined ancient church, in Errol parish, Perthshire.
WESTON, decayed village in Dunsyre parish, Lanarkshire.
WESTPANS, village, 1J mile east-north-east of Musselburgh, Edinburghshire. Pop. 244.
WEST PARK, public park and quoad sacra parish in west of Glasgow.
WEST PORT, old western suburb of Old Town of Edinburgh.
WESTPORT, section of Arbroath town, Forfarshire.
WESTQUARTER, village, 2J miles north-east of Strathaven, Lanarkshire. Pop. 389.
WESTQUARTER.rivulet, running about 7 miles north-eastward and northward to the Carron, near Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.
WESTRAW,a seat of Sir Windham C. J.O. Anstruther, Bart., formerly chief residence of last Earl of Hyndforcl, near the Clyde, opposite Carstairs Junction, Lanarkshire.
