Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackwater

Blackwater, a rivulet in Dalry parish, Kirkcudbrightshire- It issues from a lakelet at the boundary with Dumfriesshire; runs about 6 miles westward, quite across the centre of the parish, to the river Ken; and is well stocked with trout.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Dumfries Shire ScoCnty       Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty

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