Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway

Annandale (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Anann) is a strath in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, named after the dale of the River Annan.

It runs north–south through the Southern Uplands from Annanhead (north of Moffat) to Annan on the Solway Firth, and in its higher reaches it separates the Moffat hills on the east from the Lowther hills to the west.

[2] Annandale was also an historic district of Scotland, bordering Liddesdale to the east, Nithsdale to the west, Clydesdale and Tweeddale to the north and the Solway Firth to the south.

It is one of three subdivisions of Dumfriesshire, along with Eskdale (previously part of Liddesdale) and Nithsdale.

It is famous for its connection with Ben Jonson and Robert the Bruce, as the de Brus family was given this land by David I in 1124, as one of the border lordships when David became Prince of the Cumbrians.

Apx. size & location
From Hartfell looking west to the great bowl among the hills that is the Devil's Beef Tub (catching the sunlight in this picture) with Annanhead (the source of the River Annan ) to the right of the picture above the Beef Tub. The lush green valley of the river Annan (Annandale) can be seen in the left foreground. The A701 road climbs from left to right up the ridge beyond this valley - from Moffat to Annanhead, Tweedsmuir and, eventually, Edinburgh.