In his book “On Foot Through Clydesdale”, author Iain C. Lees dedicates a chapter to the area of Crossford, and the long history of horticulture that defines its landscape. Lees relays how a local fruit-picker told him how it was once considered bad luck to take any apples from an orchard after the full crop had been gathered, as it was thought that these were property of pixies. Fruit was regularly left for these fey creatures as an offering of sorts, as they would then exert their power to ens