The Wallace monument was unveiled on 28th September 1912 by Sir Thomas Glen Coats. It was designed by Mr.J.C.Murray of Westminister. It is 37 feet high and the base is 20 feet above street level.

William Wallace was born in Elderslie about 1270. The legend of the Wallace Oak says Wallace avoided capture by hiding more than 100 of his men in the giant tree. The tree began to deteriorate in health due to age and souvenir hunters, removing part of the bark. A cutting from the 300-year-old Wallace Yew was planted outside the new £400 million Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh.

The granite Celtic cross at Robroyston was erected by public subscription in 1900. It marks the site of the house where, according to legend, the Scottish patriot William Wallace was betrayed and captured in August 1305. Wallace was sent to the Tower of London, where he was hung, drawn and quartered. The Clan Wallace Society adopted the monument in 1986 under the City Council's Adopt a Monument scheme and funded its restoration. It stood in farmland in 1955, but in 2006 new housing estates are rapidly encroaching on the site and the cross is frequently vandalised. Compare the black & white photo from 1955 to mine in 2006. Still want to do nothing?

Wallace's Well, It is said William Wallace enjoyed his last drink as a free man at the well. He was in Rab Raa's [or Rae's] Toun - Robroyston - on his way to Glasgow to plead with the Bishop of Glasgow, Robert Wishart, for assistance in his fight for Scottish Independence. However, he was betrayed and captured by English soldiers at the farmhouse just a few yards from the well, on 5 August 1305.

Wallace's Well was listed in 1970, but Historic Scotland removed the site from a list of protected properties in March 1993. By 2003 it was considered to be under threat from nearby housing developments.

If you ever visit Robert The Bruce's Tomb at Dunfermline Abbey, it's worth lingering a little longer among the gravestones you'll find the successor of a thorn tree, planted in the Abbey graveyard, which is fondly supposed, to mark the grave of Sir William Wallace's mother.