River Lossie

River Lossie

Infobox River
river_name = River Lossie



caption =
origin = Hills above Dallas, Moray
mouth = Lossiemouth into Moray Firth
basin_countries = Scotland
length = 50 km
elevation = 400m
discharge = 5m³/s
watershed = 213 km²

The River Lossie (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Losaidh) is a river in north east Scotland. Ptolemy (c.90 – c.168), the Greco / Roman geographer, named it as ost. Loxa Fl. The river originates in the hills above Dallas, in Moray, and has its source 400 meters above sea-level. It enters the sea at Lossiemouth on the Moray Firth. By the time it moves through Elgin its rate of flow, in normal conditions, is best described as very slow. The gradient between Elgin and Lossiemouth is almost imperceptible with a total fall of less than 5 metres.

ettlements

(from south to north)
* Dallas
* Kellas
* Paddockhaugh
* Pittendreich
* Elgin
* Calcots
* Lossiemouth


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