River Annan
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| River Annan (Gaelic: Anainn) | |
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 River Annan road bridge in Annan
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| Country | Scotland |
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| Counties | Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway |
| City | Moffat |
| Source | Hart Fell, Moffat. Annanhead Hill, Devil's Beef Tub |
| - coordinates | 55°23′56″N 3°28′23″W / 55.399°N 3.473°W |
| Mouth | Annan |
| - coordinates | 54°58′0″N 3°16′0″W / 54.966667°N 3.266667°W |
| Basin | 4,000 km2 (1,544 sq mi) |
The River Annan (Uisge Annan in Gaelic) is a river in southwest Scotland. It rises at the foot of Hart Fell, five miles north of Moffat. A second fork rises on Annanhead Hill and flows through the Devil's Beef Tub before joining at the Hart Fell fork north of Moffat.
From there it flows past the town of Lockerbie, and to the sea in the fishing town of Annan. It is one of the region's foremost fishing rivers, despite being used for many years by Chapelcross nuclear power station which extracted water for cooling purposes, but in any case is now being decommissioned. The main fish found - and hence the target of anglers - are salmon and sea trout, brown trout, grayling and chub, with a few others such as pike.
The valley (Annandale) is fertile and farming is the major landuse. It is a beautiful unspoilt part of the UK.[citation needed]
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[edit] Etymology
The etymology of the River Annan is unknown, although some sources suggest it may mean simply "water", from a Celtic language.
[edit] Fishing
To fish on the Annan one needs permission from the owner,[vague] but one does not need an EA rod licence (England only). The salmon and sea trout season runs from 25 February to 15 November. Salmon are at their best in the Autumn, while sea trout are normally summer running. The Brown trout season ends earlier but chub and grayling can be caught all year.
[edit] Popular culture
The Annan makes several appearances in folk songs from the Borders, and in most appears as a malevolent force, drowning those who try to cross it. One of the most well recorded is 'Annan Waters' (Child 265) in which the Annan Waters allows the protagonist passage upon the promise that he may have the hero's "precious bones on my return." Versions of this song have been recorded by artists including Nic Jones, Kate Rusby and the The Decemberists
In online comic Gunnerkrigg Court, the Annan Waters are a river separating the Court from the Gillitie Forest, and mark the separation between technology/science and magic/nature.
[edit] See also
Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway
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