page_title: Moffat
section_title: Wool trade
hierarchical_section_title: Moffat / Wool trade
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken and donated by user:Guinnog
context_page_description: Moffat is a former burgh and parish in Dumfriesshire, which is now part of the Dumfries and Galloway local authority area in Scotland, lying on the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500. It was a centre of the wool trade and a spa town.
  Moffat is around 59 miles to the southeast of Glasgow, 51 miles to the south of Edinburgh, 21 miles to the north of Dumfries and 44 miles to the north of Carlisle.
  The Moffat House Hotel, located at the northern end of the High Street, was designed by John Adam. The nearby Star Hotel, a mere 20 ft wide, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the narrowest hotel in the world. Moffat won the Britain in Bloom contest in 1996.
  Moffat is the home to Moffat toffee.
  The town is held to be the ancestral seat of Clan Moffat. The Devil's Beef Tub near Moffat was used by the members of Clan Moffat and later the members of Clan Johnstone to hoard cattle stolen in predatory raids.
context_section_description: Moffat was a notable market in the wool trade, and this is commemorated with a statue of a ram by William Brodie in the town's marketplace. The ram was presented to the town by William Colvin, a local businessman, in 1875. The ram's ears are missing, as they have been since it was first presented.
caption: Ram statue
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