2008

NY0573 : Mouswald countryside in the fog

taken 16 years ago, near to Cleughbrae, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland

Mouswald countryside in the fog
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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This photo is linked from: Articles: · Images shortlisted for GOTY, 2008 Automatic Clusters: · Mouswald [12] · Ground [2] ·
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Darrin Antrobus   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 20 February, 2008   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 20 February, 2008
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 058 737 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:2.9573N 3:28.5385W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NY 063 742
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Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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