2022
NT0559 : Powfastle meets Crosswood
taken 1 year ago, near to Camilty Plantation [forest or Wood], West Lothian, Great Britain
Powfastle meets Crosswood
Powfastle Burn is the tributary on the right feeding into Crosswood Burn, though today's OS big orange-scale maps don't differentiate water flows between the two. I only really mention this because the oldest OS map of here - at a scale of 6 inches to the mile and dating from the 1850s - shows what is actually happening on the ground. Today's 1:25000 maps show just 2 and a half inches to the mile. Considering that the only people that use big-scale OS maps today are people on the ground exploring there is surely a case for bigger scale maps being available, via online ordering at a premium possibly - the data is there. Although I realise that the old OS maps weren't available in shops, and weren't designed to be for the public, the fact that when done back then it was always with more detail than we get today in the open era is quite depressing, from a map fancier's perspective anyway!
Powfastle is certainly a funny name, and I have found absolutely nothing about how the name came to be. So it is up to me to provide the first theory. 'Pow' in old Scots means 'head', and several other things closely related. So, until I am corrected, this may mean 'head of the fast little burn', since it flows into faster little ones (this picture was taken after a day of heavy rain)!
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