Old Travel Blog Photograph Mosspaul Hotel On The Road To Langholm Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Mosspaul Hotel on the road to Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Mosspaul Inn at one time was said to be little more than a " butt and ben, " and continued to be so till about the beginning of the 19th century. The first landlord of whom any record can be traced was Thomas Gray, whose name appeared in a list, in 1803, of those who were prepared to defend their country against the threatened French invasion. He was a member of the 1st Battalion of the Roxburghshire Volunteers, and rode to Hawick along with Major Robert Elliot of Arkleton on the night of the False Alarm, the evening of the 31st January, 1804, when the beacon fires on the Border hills flashed the erroneous intelligence that the French had landed.



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