Imperial gazeteer of Scotland, or, Dictionary of Scottish topography > Volume 2

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YARROW.
solitude to a stirring scone of operative industry.
The power employed in the works is water ; and the
line of troughs, from the fountain-head to the lower
extremity of the works, measures six miles. Of the
different shafts sunk, the deepest, in 1843, was 52
fathoms ; and, as the under springs became a little
troublesome, accumulation was drawn off by the
beautiful balance-machine first invented by Brindley,
and ore raised on the same principle as often as
necessary. From top to bottom the miners are en-
closed between masses of whinstone, compact as
huge, in the centre of which a seam of metal, to all
appearance inexhaustible, dips generally at an angle
of nearly 30 degrees. The ore is conveyed, — whether
to the break-mill or the washing-sieves shaken by
overshot wheels, — by branches of railway. When
smelted, the metal is conveyed in bars to Ayr by
way of Dalmellington, and thence shipped to Liver-
pool, and generally sold either in that port or in
London. From its great purity it is in brisk de-
mand. The miners, who work by the piece, gen-
erally relieve one another night and day, and earn
wages varying from 16s. to 20s. The ores contain
also a considerable quantity of silver.
WOODHEAD, Ayrshire. See Galston.
WOODHEAD, Aberdeenshire. See Fvvie.
WOOD-HILL. See Alva, Kirkmichael, and
Manor.
WOODHOUSE. See Hamilton, Kirkpatrick-
Fleming, and Manor.
WOODHOUSELEE, the seat of James Tytler,
Esq. on the southern slope of the Pentland-hills,
surrounded by fine woods, 6£ miles south of Edin-
burgh ; also the ancient seat, 4 miles from the for-
mer, of Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh. See Glen-
ckoss. From Old Woodhouselee, which Regent
Moray boldly bestowed on Sir James Bellenden, one
of his favourites, Lady Bothwellhaugh was turned
out in a cold night, in a state of undress, to the open
fields; and she, in consequence, became, previous to
the next morning, furiously insane. This occur-
rence forms the subject of Sir Walter Scott's first
ballad of Cadzow castle : — ■
4 0, change accursed ! past are those days ;
False Moray's ruthless spoilers came,
And lor the hearth's domestic blaze.
Ascends destruction's volumed flame.
What sheeted phantom wanders wild,
Where mountain Esk, through woodland flows.
Her arms enfold a shadowy child —
Oh I is it she, the pallid rose?"
Hamilton, the injured husband of the lady, and the
robbed proprietor of the mansion, became, it will be
remembered, the assassin of the Regent. See Lin-
lithgow.
WOODLANE, a village in the parish of Kincar-
dine, Perthshire. Population, 102. Houses, 18.
WOODNEUK. See Falkirk.
WOODSIDE, a hamlet in the parish of Mouswald,
Dumfries-shire. Population, 70.
WOODSIDE, a village on the northern border of
the parish of Largo, Fifeshire. It stands adjacent
to Gilston: which see. Population, about 90.
WOODSIDE, a village in the parish of Cargill,
Perthshire. It stands in the vicinity of Burrelton,
about 2 % miles from Cupar-Angus; and has a station
on the Scottish Midland Junction railway, 13J miles
from Perth. It is one of the most beautiful villages
in Strathmore. Here are a neat Free church and
manse, and a very fine Free church school, with
Schoolmaster's house and library. Population, 102.
Houses, 18.
WOODSIDE, a small post-town and seat of man-
ufacture, in the parish of Old Machar, Aberdeenshire.
It stands about 2 miles north- west of New Aberdeen,
but is included within the parliamentary burgh of
Aberdeen ; so that it has properly the character of
a suburb. Here are two places of worship belong-
ing respectively to the Established church and the
Free church. The village and a small tract around
it ranked temporarily as a quoad sacra parish ; and
the population of this in 1S41 was 4,839, with 440
houses.
WOODSIDE, Banffshire. See Rathven.
WOODSIDE, Kincardineshire. See Cyrus (St.).
WOODSIDE, Roxburghshire. See Morebattle.
WOODWICK. See Evie and Rendall and Unst.
WOODYETT. See Denny.
WOOLANDSLEE-BURN. See Innerleithen.
WOOLMET. See Newton, Edinburghshire.
WORMINGTON. See Linton, Roxburghshire.
WORMISTON. See Crail.
WORMIT-BAY, a small bay in the west of the
parish of Forgan, on the north coast of Fifeshire
WORMY-HILLS. See Arbiklot.
WRATH (Cape). See Cape- Wrath.
WREATHS. See Kirkeean.
WYESBIE. See Kirkpatrick-Fleming. ■
WYMET. See Newton, Edinburghshire.
WYNNIE-BUEN, a brook issuing from mhyars
land in the barony of Tullybeagles, and running to
the Ordie, near the mill of Balmacollie, in the parish
of Auchtergaven, Perthshire.
Y
YAIR. See Tweed (The).
YARDSIDE. See Riccarton.
YARROW, a parish in Selkirkshire. It long
comprehended the three ancient parishes of Du-
choire, St. Mary's, and Kirkbope; but it was divided,
in 1852, into the two parishes of Yarrow and Kirk-
hope. We have said in the article Kirkiiope [which
see] that we shall here describe the parish of Yarrow
according to the limits which belonged to it before the
division. The parish, thus understood, contains the
post-office station of Yarrow, the hamlet of Yarrow-
feus, the village of Ettrick-bridge, and part of the vil-
lage of Yarrowfprd. It is bounded on the north by
Traquair and Innerleithen in Peebles-shire, and by
the Selkirkshire parts of Innerleithen and Stow; on
the east by both the Selkirkshire and the Roxburgh-
shire parts of both Selkirk and Ashkirk ; on the
south by Roberton and Ettrick ; and on the west by
Megget, Manor, and Peebles in Peebles-shire. Its
length is 18 miles ; its greatest breadth is 16 miles;
and its area is about 111 square miles. Its outline,
especially on the north, is singularly irregular, and