Moffat
Moffat is a former burgh and parish in Dumfriesshire, which is currently part of the Dumfries as well as Galloway neighborhood authority area in Scotland, pushing the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500. It was a centre of the woollen trade and also a medspa community. Moffat is around 59 mi (95 kilometres) to the southeast of Glasgow, 51 mi (82 kilometres) to the south of Edinburgh, 21 mi (34 km) to the north of Dumfries and also 44 mi (71 kilometres) to the north of Carlisle. The Moffat Home Hotel, situated at the northern end of the High Road, was designed by John Adam. The nearby Star Hotel, a plain 20 ft (6 m) large, was noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the narrowest hotel in the world. Moffat won the Britain in Blossom contest in 1996. Moffat is the residence to Moffat toffee. The community is held to be the ancestral seat of Clan Moffat. The Devil's Beef Tub near Moffat was used by the participants of Clan Moffat as well as later the participants of Clan Johnstone to hoard livestock taken in predatory raids.
