Walston is a hamlet in the middle of black mount area of South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

[1][2] Patrick Molleson in the Old Statistical Account records that the name sometimes used to be written as Welstoun (with a long s) and may have come from a copious spring of good water known as Walston-well.

[3] However John Wilson in the New Statistical Account suggests that the name may have come from Waldef, the brother of the Earl of Dunbar.

[4] John Wilson also mentions Patrick Anderson of Walston who was imprisoned on the Bass Rock for keeping conventicles and corresponding with banned ministers.

Due to the small pupil population, the classes are composite and the staff may fill multiple roles, such as janitor and chef.