Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Chanlock

Chanlock, a burn of Penpont parish, NW Dumfriesshire. Rising at 1500 feet above sea-level, 3 miles ESE of the meeting-point of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Ayr shires, it runs 6 miles east-by-southward, and falls into Scar Water, 5 miles NW of Penpont village.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a burn"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Penpont ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty

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