Watch Water

It rises in the Lammermuir Hills, around 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Longformacus, and flows generally eastward to its confluence with the Dye Water, around 700 metres (2,300 ft) west of Longformacus.

[1] The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which runs across southern Scotland, skirts the northern edge of the reservoir, and the Sir Walter Scott Way from Moffat to Cockburnspath also passes by it.

The partial ruins of a peel tower survive as part of Old Scarlaw Cottage, also on the northern edge of the reservoir.

[2] Close to where the Southern Upland Way crosses the Watch Water is John Dippie's Well.

This natural spring is marked by a carved stone erected in 1869, inscribed "There is no water in the Lammermuirs sweeter than that at John Dippie’s Well.