Place-Names: W

PLACE-NAMESSUGGESTED MEANING
Waterhead, Waterhead CastleSSE water ‘water, stream’ + SSE head ‘head’
Place-Name: Waterhead + SSE castle ‘castle’
WatersideSSE water ‘water, stream’ + SSE side ‘side’
Watson Burn 
Watsonburn 
Wedder Hill Scots wedder ‘castrated sheep’ + SSE hill ‘hill’
Wee Craig Knowe 
Wee Glen Burn 
Wee Pathead, Wee Pathhead Scots wee ‘small, smaller’ SSE path ‘path’ SSE head ‘head , top of’
Weeshiel Craig Scots wee ‘small, smaller’
Scots shiel ‘rough shelter for sheep or cattle and their herds’
Scots craig ‘rock,craig’
Wellhill ,
Wellhill Tile Works,
Wellhill T.P.
West Burn
West Lowes SSE west ‘west, westerly’ + Place-Names: LoweS
West PolquhirterSSE west ‘west, westerly’ + Place-Names: Polquhirter
West Strand 
Whig Hole Whig hole ‘Hiding place for Covenanters’
White Hill
White Knowe 
White Knowes
Whitehill 
WhitelaysykeSSE white ‘white’ + S. lay ‘fallow land’
S. sike ‘slow sluggish stream’
White Stones Hill
Windy Edge S. windy ‘place exposed to wind’
S. edge ‘crest of a sharp ridge’
Witch Knowe and Witch PoolSSE witch ‘witch’ S. knowe ‘hillock’
SSE witch ‘witch’ S. pool ‘pool’
possibly a place of judgement / execution
PLACE-NAMESUGGESTED MEANING
Abbreviations: G. Gaelic, S. Scots, SSE Standard Scottish English, W. Welsh