During our visit to Dumfries we went in the afternoon to the farm where Burns and his family lived for three years. Burns was given the farm and £300 to build a house by one of his supporters who lived near by. Burns had the choice of three farms, but being the romantic selected the prettiest site beside the Nith River. However it was not good land for farming. Burns had a house built, moved the family there from near Ayr, and ploughed the fields. It was not working out so Burns became an exciseman, spending many hours on horseback collecting taxes. It was here that Burns wrote “Scott wa hae,” “Auld Lang sang, and “He’s a man for all that.” They were at the farm for three years before moving to Dumfries.
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| Pathway down to River Nith |
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| Where Burns walked while writing Tam O'Shanter |
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