Friock from 400 feet

[Wildfisher]

 Gloomy this morning. The Lunan was in the fields again a few days ago, dropping now. The coos have eaten a' the tatties, not as much as a bilin' left. 

[MacTeeth]

...it's lookin a bittae better than lest nicht...I wis playin a dance in the Friock Hub and it wis a bittae an epic gettin hame...

[Fishtales]

Looks like an Oxbow lake about to form at that bend.

[Wildfisher]

Been a lot of floods this autumn for sure. Whole place is a quagmire at the moment and the wee river is still raging. 

[Fishtales]

Been a lot of floods this autumn for sure. Whole place is a quagmire at the moment and the wee river is still raging. 

Looking at the old maps that bit used to be straight

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=56.64227&lon=-2.65779&layers=168&b=1

[Wildfisher]

That's interesting. The fields are dead flat there and the soil is soft sand so I guess the river cuts through it readily. That old lade is still there in places especially down nearer Kinnell. The entire area floods frequently it's a classic flood plain.

[Bobfly]

It may well be that the course was straightened when the lade was made. Huge amounts of efforts put in to use waterflow energy in years gone by. You can still see old lades off burns near me and a water-wheel skeleton still stands in a piece of overgrown woodland.