Douglas Water

The photograph* below is of a small burn flowing through Douglas Glen into Douglas Water. There are three Scottish streams with this name. The one which the burn in the picture feeds is a tributary of the River Clyde, in south-central Scotland. This Douglas Water (Gaelic dubh-ghlas, or black water) rises in the hills to the south-west of Muirkirk and then runs north-east, then east, to flow through Douglas Village and past the nearby remains of Douglas Castle. The castle was a stronghold of the House of Douglas, a powerful medieval family whose Norman ancestors settled here in the 12th century and took their surname from the river. After passing through Douglasdale, Douglas Water continues on to its confluence with the Clyde, near Glasgow, a beautiful city on that river, not very far from Loch Lomond.

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