From New Cumnock it forms the boundary between the Lowther hills and Carsphairn / Scaur hills and the A76 travels down the valley created by it ( Nithsdale ).
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The river valley, the Scaur Glen, displays several sculptures by Andy Goldsworthy and Bronze Age forts, and is lined for much of its length with birch and oak forest.
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It rises in the Scaur hills hills of Tynron Parish in the Southern Uplands at an altitude of 460m, and flows 13 miles to join Scaur Water near Penpont, at an altitude of 70m.
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It rises in the Scaur hills hills of Tynron Parish in the Southern Uplands at an altitude of 460m, and flows 13 miles to join Scaur Water near Penpont, at an altitude of 70m.
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My wife and I walked the 1.75-mile section from Somerset Bridge to the bus station in Somerset, stopping off at Scaur Hill Fort Park and enjoying the scenic panorama from its heights.
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In the south / south east, the valleys of Water of Ken, Dalwhat, Shinnel and Scaur Waters have roads running deep into the central hill area with active farming communities eating well into the hill area up these glens.
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From Sanquhar the Southern Upland Way ( SUW ) heads south west over gently rising moorland, before descending to Scaur Water at Polgown from whence it uses the minor road which follows Scaur Water to Polskeoch where there is a Mountain Bothies Association bothy ( OS Ref NS685018 ).
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From Sanquhar the Southern Upland Way ( SUW ) heads south west over gently rising moorland, before descending to Scaur Water at Polgown from whence it uses the minor road which follows Scaur Water to Polskeoch where there is a Mountain Bothies Association bothy ( OS Ref NS685018 ).
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Its total length is 65 mi ., and its chief affluents are, on the right, the Kello Water, Euchan Water, Scaur Water, Cluden Water and River Cargen, Cargen, and on the left the River Crawick, Carron Water, Dumfriesshire and River Campie.
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On the shortest day of the year, if you stand on top of The Wren's Egg, a standing stone at Blairbuy Farm, Monreith, the sun will set directly behind Big Scaur ( " Scaur " meaning " isolated rock in the sea " ) which is situated out in Luce Bay.
