Dryfe Watter

Dryfe Watter is a river in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It is aboot 18 mile lang an flowes intil the River Annan at grid reference NY 107 820, near Lockerbie. It stairts at NT 170 041 on the soothren slopes o Loch Fell near Moffat an syne flowes alang a narrae glen til the Annan.

Glen o the Dryfe Watter

Dryfe Watter gies its name til the pairish, Drysal (English: Dryfesdale), an the common Scots faimily name, Drysdale. A seicont name is the gey less common faimily name Dryfe (or Drife). The meanin o the wird Dryfe isna kent. It micht be fae the Auld Norse leid, Anglo-Saxon leids, or Brythonic leids that wis aw uised at different times in Dumfriesshire.