[7] The 'Runner' is a deep and broad ditch that was dug many years back to link the three lochs of Lowes, Black, and Creoch.

Robert Gordon's map of 1636–52 shows a single loch with an outflow only, running into the River Nith.

A significant area of wetland adjoins the loch with a minor ironstone pit located within it near Meikle Creoch Farm.

[1] A pair of great crested grebes nested here in the 20th century and other species present were the reed warbler, coaltop, snipe, meadow pippet, lapwing, etc.

This would have resulted in part of the waters of the River Nith flowing onto the Clyde rather than the Solway, however the development was never carried to fruition.

[16] Love records that a witch, transformed into a hare, was shot by a young man at Lowes Farm and the inevitable curse was prevented by the firing of a piece of silver at the exact spot where the animal had been wounded.