WOODHEAD, estate in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire.
WOODHILL, seat in Kirkmichael parish, Perthshire. Perthshire.
WOODHILL, one of the Ochils near Alva, Stirlingshire.
WOODHILL, hill, with vestige of what is called Macbeth 's Castle, in Manor parish, Peeblesshire.
WOODHILL, Dumfriesshire.
WOODHOUSE, ruined notable old tower on Kirtle rivulet, near Kirkpatrick-Fleming village, Dumfriesshire.
WOODHOUSE, place, with old circular entrenchment and site of old peel-house, in Manor parish, Peeblesshire.
WOODHOUSELEE, seat on slope of Pentland Hills, 6J miles south of Edinburgh. Old Woodhouselee, the scene of tragical event commemorated in Sir Walter Scott's first ballad of * Cadzow Castle,' stood 3 miles to the south-east, and is now represented by mere vestiges.
WOODHOUSELEES, seat and quondam Border tower in Canonbie parish, Dumfriesshire.
WOODILEE, place, with Barony lunatic asylum, 7 miles north-east of Glasgow.
WOODLANDS, seat in St. Vigeans parish, Forfarshire.
WOODLANDS, colliery in Tillicoultry parish, Clackmannanshire.
WOODLANE, village in Kincardine parish, Perthshire.
WOODMUIR, hill, 5 miles south-south-east of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire.
WOODSIDE, suburban tcwn on the Don, 2 miles north-west of Aberdeen. It is a seat of manufacture, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, a railway station, a banking office, a town hall, a quoad sacra parochial church, Free, United Presbyterian, and Congregational churches, 2 public schools with about 770 scholars, and a large free library presented by Sir John Anderson in 1881. Pop. of town, 5452 ; of quoad sacra parish, 5928.
WOODSIDE, village, with railway station and public school, 13J miles north-by-east of Perth.
WOODSIDE, north-western suburb of Glasgow. It has an Established church founded in 1881, and estimated to cost about 9000, and a public school erected in 1882 at a cost of about 11,000, exclusive of site, and containing accommodation for 1650 scholars.
WOODSIDE, village on north border of Largo parish, Fife.
WOODSIDE, hamlet in Mouswald parish, Dumfriesshire.
WOODSIDE, place, with public school, in Penpont parish, Dumfriesshire.
WOODSIDE, seat in Kelso parish, Roxburghshire.
WOODSIDE, hill in Morebattle parish, Roxburghshire .
WOODSIDE, seat in Abbey-Paisley parish, Renfrewshire.
WOODSLEE, seat in Canonbie parish Dumfriesshire.
WOODSTON, estate and hill in St. Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire.
WOODVILLE, seat in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire.
WOODVILLE, seat in St. Vigeans par ish, Forfarshire.
WOODWICK, bay, 8 miles north-north-west of Kirkwall, Orkney.
WOODWICK, bay on west side of Unst Island, Shetland.
WOOLMET, small village and ancient parish in Edinburghshire. The village stands 2 miles north-north-west of Dalkeith, and the parish is now united to Newton.
WORMISTON, seat in Crail parish, Fife.
WORMISTON, farm, with remains of ancient camp, in Eddlestone parish, Peeblesshire.
WORMIT, small bay and ravine, 2J miles west-south-west of Newport, Fife.
WORMWELL, lofty hill in Glenholm section of Broughton parish, Peeblesshire.
WORMYHILLS, place, with bleachfield, in Arbirlot parish, Forfarshire.
WRATH.
WREATHS, remains of ancient castle in Kirkbean parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
WUDDY, eminence, with large tumulus, in Kinnell parish, Forfarshire.
WYESBIE, seat, hill, and medicinal spring in Kirkpatrick-Fleming parish, Dumfriesshire.
WYMET.
WYNNIE, affluent of the Ordie in Auchtergaven parish, Perthshire.
YAFFER, bay, 5 miles south-west of Kirkwall, Orkney.
YAIKENBANK, eminence hi Gartly parish, Banffshire.
YAIR, seat and bridge on the Tweed, 2 miles south of Clovenford, Selkirkshire. Yair Trows here are a group of rocks in the river's channel throwing its current into rapids.
YARDSIDES, farm, with site of seat of Sir William Wallace's uncle, adjacent to west end of Riccarton town, Ayrshire.
YARROW, river, hamlet, and parish in Selkirkshire. The river issues from St. Mary's Loch ; runs 11 miles north-east-ward and 3 miles south-eastward to the Ettrick, at 2 miles west-south-west of Selkirk; traverses from head to foot a very lovely pastoral vale ; and, with objects and scenery on its banks, has been celebrated in more poetry, both old and recent, than any other stream in Scotland. The hamlet lies on left side of the river, 9 miles west of Selkirk; is near a hill-slope, formerly with more than 20 large cairns, but now with no other antiquity than two massive unhewn stones, the scene of the famous ancient ballad, ' The Dowie Dens of Yarrow ; ' and has a post office under Selkirk, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 70 scholars. The parish contains also part of Yarrowf eus hamlet and part of Yarrowford, measures 16 miles by 8, and comprises 41,046 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,141. Pop. 562. The surface includes greater part of St. Mary's Loch ; is partly bounded on the north by the Tweed; contains numerous small vales watered by burns running mostly to the Yarrow ; consists predominantly of mountains and lofty hills, variously in ridges, in groups, and in isolated masses ; and contains at least 17 summits between 15W and 2169 feet high. The seats are Elibank, Ashiestiel, and Hangingshaw ; and chief antiquities are Dryhope and Blackhouse towers, Binram's Cross, St. Mary's Kirk burying-ground, and the two stones on the 'Dowie Dens.' There are 3 schools for 167 scholars, and 1 of them for 54 is new.
