📌 Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway
★★★
The A701 is our favourite route from Edinburgh towards Moffat, Carlisle and all points south, and this is in part due to the spectacular scenery around the Devil’s Beef Tub. This 500 foot-deep cleft in the Moffat Hills forms the source of the River Annan and gets its name from turbulent Border Reiver days, when the Johnstone clan (known as “devils” by their enemies) used the valley to conceal rustled cattle. A circumnavigation of the hollow makes a superb half-day outing on foot from the valley floor at Ericstane, but you can also view it from the roadside at several laybys – the exact location detailed below probably provides the best vantage point.
🌍 Location
📌 By the A701 5 mi north of Moffat
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 061126
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.397931,-3.484443
❌ No public transport within 1 mi – you could walk from Moffat via the Annandale Way
🚗 Layby on northbound side of road
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
