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Wigtown Castle
Place: Wigtown
A broad ditch and low enclosure mark the royal castle that administered medieval Wigtownshire during the Wars of Independence.
Wigtown New Market Cross
Place: Wigtown
The forty-foot granite cross gives the planted square a tall civic focus and forms a deliberate pair with the older sundial cross.
Wigtown Old Market Cross
Place: Wigtown
A compact column crowned by a weathered four-faced sundial is the older of Wigtown’s two separately designated mercat crosses.
Wigtown Parish Church
Place: Wigtown
A tall 1858 kirk, aisle and patterned-roof tower continue worship beside Wigtown’s older parish-church remains.
Wigtown Post Office, 27 South Main Street
Place: Wigtown
A modest early nineteenth-century house continues the square’s everyday service role through a later ground-floor post office.
Wigtown Town Hall and Former Sheriff Court
Place: Wigtown
Thomas Brown II gave Wigtown an unusually elaborate French Gothic courthouse whose public rooms now include the John McNeillie Library.
William Pitt Statue, Edinburgh
Place: Edinburgh
Chantrey’s bronze William Pitt punctuates the formal axis of George Street at Frederick Street.
William Walker Memorial
Place: Kilbirnie
A robed figure, medical serpent and bronze portrait commemorate Dr William Walker as Kilbirnie’s “Faithful Physician”.
Williamson Kirk
Place: Abernethy
A richly detailed Gothic church now serves as Abernethy’s village hall, retaining its spire and rose windows as community landmarks.
Wilson Monument, Strathaven
Place: Strathaven
Public subscription raised this obelisk to James Wilson, connecting a central Strathaven streetscape with the contested memory of the 1820 Radical Rising.
Wilton Lodge Museum
Place: Hawick
A substantial villa with a much older core has served as Hawick’s museum for more than a century.
Windhill Standing Stone
Place: Muir of Ord
A solitary stone about 1.7 metres high marks a prehistoric act of placing and commemoration in the agricultural landscape outside Muir of Ord.
Windy Hill Martyrs Monument
Place: Wigtown
A tapering octagonal shaft and urn crown the hilltop memorial to Covenanters killed at Wigtown in 1685.
Wine Tower
Place: Fraserburgh
A compact vaulted tower beside Kinnaird Head Castle preserves an exceptional set of late-sixteenth-century heraldic stone bosses.
Winton Buildings, Ardrossan
Place: Ardrossan
A modest corner block records the everyday commercial frontage behind the harbour.
Woodlands Terrace Stairway to Clifton Street
Place: Glasgow
A monumental open-air stair turns Glasgow’s steep Woodlands Hill topography into architecture, joining Clifton Street to the elevated terraces through granite piers, balustrades and carefully staged flights.
Woodmuir Farm Coke Ovens and Reservoir
Place: Fauldhouse
Ten conical coke ovens in five back-to-back pairs survive with a reservoir, chimney remains and railway earthworks from an early mineral-processing landscape.
Woodside
Place: Inverkip
A modest Main Street house gains unusual distinction from wallhead urns said to have come from an earlier Ardgowan building.
Woodside Cairn
Place: Sandhaven
A broad grassed mound survives from a prehistoric funerary landscape, with an old hollow possibly marking eighteenth-century investigation of a cist and cremated remains.
Wooleys Bakers, Brodick
Place: Brodick
A compact Arts and Crafts block gives a carefully composed architectural front to a bakery whose shop remains part of everyday life at Invercloy.
Wraes Mill
Place: Neilston
A compact rubble mill preserves the scale and plan of water-powered production beyond Neilston’s much larger Crofthead complex.
Ye Olde Hotel
Place: Leuchars
A white-painted coaching-era hotel and bold Arts-and-Crafts-influenced extension recall the village’s former relationship with the railway.