Moniave, Dumfries & Galloway - Cairn Water -postcard by McCheyne -local pmk 1948

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• Picture / Image:  Cairn Water, Moniave [Dumfries & Galloway] - real photo
• Publisher: J. McCheyne, Moniave
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  George V 2d orange
• Postmark(s): Moniave Dumfries 25 Aug 1948? cds
• Sent to:  Mrs Bassant, 80 The Woodlands, Hither Green, London SE13
• Notes / condition: bumped corner

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Moniaive (/mɒniˈaɪvə/; Scottish Gaelic: Am Moine Naomh, "The Holy Moor") is a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, South-West Scotland. Moniaive has been named best overall small village in the Nithsdale in Bloom competition five times in a row, from 2006-2011.^[1] The village streetscape was featured in the 2002 Peter Mullanfilm The Magdalene Sisters. In 2004, The Times described the village as one of the 'coolest' in Britain.

Moniaive has existed as a village as far back as the 10th century. On 4 July 1636 King Charles I granted a charter in favour of William, Earl of Dumfries, making Moniaive a 'free Burgh of Barony'. With this charter came the rights to set up a market cross and tolbooth, to hold a weekly market on Tuesday and two annual fairs each of three days duration. Midsummer Fair was from 16 June and Michaelmas Fair on the last day of September.

The Cairn Valley Light Railway was opened from Dumfries in 1905 as a subsidiary company of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Plans initially had involved developing Moniaive into a resort due to the countryside being very scenic and peaceful. Passenger services were suspended as a wartime economy on 3 May 1943 and to all traffic on 4 August 1947.

Cairn Water is a small river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The river, formed by the confluence of the Castlefern, Craigdarroch and Dalquhat, flows for 11.5 miles (18.5 km) southeast to the Cluden.^[1]

The Castlefairn is joined by the Craigdarroch and then by the Dalwhat, both from its left, just below the village of Moniaivein the parish of Glencairn. The confluence of these streams forms the Cairn Water. The parish is named for the river valley. The river flows east past Kirkland, then southeast to Newtonairds, where it is joined by the Old Water to form Cluden Water. Cluden Water flows east and southeast to join the River Nith just north of Dumfries.^[2] The river once defined part of the boundary between Dumfriesshire to the east and Kirkcudbrightshire to the west.^[3]