2008
NY0573 : Mouswald countryside in the fog
taken 16 years ago, near to Cleughbrae, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland
Mouswald countryside in the fog
Picture taken while stopped at roadworks on A75.
The usually accepted derivation of "Mouswald" has been Mosswald, or "wood on the moss" (wald = weald, wood, forest, cf. Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dic-tionary). The traditions of the neighbourhood still tell of a great oak forest which spread from Mouswald by Torthorwald as far as Tinwald Kirk at least, so dense that it is said a man might have traversed the distance from tree to tree without ever putting foot to ground.
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