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Brow is a hamlet on the B725 lying around 3 km from Ruthwell in the Parish of that name on the Solway Firth between Dumfries and Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Raffles Burn runs through the site, marked on maps as the Brow Burn it flows into the Solway Firth at Lochar Bay. ==History== The name may refer to the situation of the site that 'faces or confronts'〔 the Lochar Water and the Solway Firth. The hamlet in 1747 consisted of four or more buildings on a minor road between Ruthwell and Caerlaverock.〔 A ford in the 1800s ran across the sands and the Lochar Water from near Brow to Blackshaw Point.〔 The Raffles or Brow Burn runs through the site after passing near to Clarencefield where it once powered a saw mill and then through the Brow Plantation to run through the sand banks at Lochar Bay where at low tide it joins the Lochar Water. Used as a staging post by drovers taking their cattle to England for sale, the hamlet had at Burns' time around a dozen houses. one of which was small inn that although run by the Davidsons, husband and wife, was owned by James Morpeth.〔Mackay, Page 619〕 Brow had a minor reputation as a poor mans spa with its Chalybeate well and sea bathing in the Solway Firth a hundred metres or so away down a narrow lane.〔Mackay, Page 618〕 The farm of Stanhope is located on the other side of the burn with a ford existing in the 19th century. Herman Molls map circa 1745 does not mark 'Brow' in this position, but locates a 'Brow' on the other side of the Lochar Water on Blackshaw Point〔(Moll's Map ) Retrieved : 2013-07-14〕 as does Blaeu's map, based on Timothy Ponts map of circa 1600.〔(Blaeu's Map ) Retrieved : 2013-07-14〕 John Thomson's map of 1832 indicates a group of three buildings and a minerla well.〔(Thomson's Map ) Retrieved : 2013-07-14〕 In 1856 a group of buildings existed with a small building close to the well and a path leading dowm to a ford across the Brow Burn that led to Stanhope Farm.〔 The hamlet had a small cottage that acted as an inn of sorts, mainly used by drovers and those visiting the well seeking a cure. The inn, situated between two other cottages,〔 lay on the eastern side of the Raffles or Brow Burn and was demolished in 1863 when the road was widened. Robert Burns stayed at this hostelry whilst taking the waters from Brow Well and immersing himself up to the armpits in the waters of the Solway Firth.〔(Burns Howff Club ) Retrieved : 2013-07-14〕 A local legend records that the Roman Legions of the Emperor Agricola landed at Brow.〔Mackay (1988), Page 17〕 It is also said that the first Scottish pigs were introduced and raised at Brow, their appearance causing great concern amongst those who saw them.〔 On a knoll close to the cottage in which Robert Burns lodged David Lord Stormont of Comlongan Castle bade farewell to his younger son William Murray, informing him that he should not return until he achieved the position of Chief Justice of the King's Bench. In due course William did indeed reach this position in the justiciary.〔Wilson, Vol. 2, Page 71〕 The Brow Merse is a part of the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brow, Dumfries and Galloway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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