Border Reivers

From The Scotsman

The Scotsman has learned that Borders Forest Trust, which owns a 1,580-acre site at Corehead Farm near Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, is hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds of funding next year to pay for a mass tree planting scheme and a series of other regeneration measures at the site.

The farm, bought by the trust earlier this year with £700,000 raised from the public, includes the iconic Devil's Beef Tub – a huge, deep hollow where the Border Reivers once hid stolen livestock.

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