Moffat's High Street in the December dusk with the lights ready for Christmas
Moffat's
population is around 2,500, but it retains the epithet town from former times before the rationalisations and amalgamations of the twentieth century. The central area of the High Street, seen above, was a bowling green; as it still is in Wigtown.
Moffat is not an old town,
it grew in size and fame with the finding of sulphurous water nearby in the eighteenth century at a time when 'taking the waters' was a great fashion. This page has photos of the High Street and nearby St Andrew's Church
Originally this building was constructed as the bath houses, it then became the town hall and is now a community centre
The Star Hotel is in the Guinness Book of Records as the
narrowest hotel in the UK
- not in the world as some say - internally the distinction is unnoticeable
The Annandale Hotel is around 250 year old dating from the time when Moffat first became famous and city people needed accommodation
A onetime home of the photographer - the upper flat in Elmwood - in the snow, just a couple of hundred yards away from the High Street
The Colvin Fountain with its famous earless ram
Watering the hanging baskets on the Annandale hotel
The view across Moffat from Chapel Brae with Swatte Fell (part of the Hartfell range) as background
The Moffat Ram (Colvin Fountain) and the Moffat House Hotel
The now Moffat House Hotel was built in 1761 for the Earl of Hopetoun, it was designed by
John Adam
following work he, and his brother Robert, had undertaken at Hopetoun House
The Moffat
Pipe Band
on a summer's afternoon
The band's pipe major and drummer
Above - the Buccleuch Arms Hotel and the High Street's floral displays. Right - the
Colvin Fountain
was created by William Brodie for a businessman William Colvin
Well Street leads from the High Street, and offers a range of local shops
much browsed by visitors
St Andrew's Church and the Black Bull courtyard
Above summer sun on the church, left a May morning
The summer evening sun across the town picking out St Andrew's Church
The next page
introduces two of Moffat's main attractions, but of very different types: the annual Moffat Agricultural Show, and the Station Park.
The previous page was about the town of Naini
To a page on the upper part of Moffat Water
