Old travel Blog photograph of fishermen by Dalwhat Water near Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Dalwhat Water rises in the uplands of Penpont Parish. It flows southeastwards to join the Castlefairn Water at Moniaive where it becomes the Cairn Water. In the 17th century, Moniaive became the refuge for the Covenanters, a group of Presbyterian nonconformists who rebelled at having the Episcopalian religion forced on them by the last three Stuart kings, Charles I, Charles II and James II of England, James VII of Scotland. There is a monument off the Ayr Road to James Renwick, a Covenanter leader born in Moniaive and later executed in Edinburgh. The Scottish artist James Paterson, a founder member of The Glasgow Boys, settled in Moniaive in 1884 and stayed for 22 years.
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