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Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or fjord (cognate with the Irish Gaelic loch, which is anglicised as lough and with the older Welsh word for a lake, llwch) that has been borrowed by Scots and Scottish English to apply to such bodies of water, especially those in Scotland. Whilst "loch" or "lochan" is by far the most widespread name ...
The list of lakes, lochs, loughs and llyns of the United Kingdom is a link page for some large lakes of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), including lochs fully enclosed by land. Lakes in Scotland are called lochs, and in Northern Ireland loughs (pronounced the same way, i.e. (/lÉ’ç/)). In Wales a lake is ...
For a list of Scottish bodies of freshwater please see List of lochs in Scotland. Map of sea Lochs of Scotland compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for other places. There are numerous sea lochs around the Scottish coast, notably down the length of Scotland's western coast. A sea loch is a tidal inlet of the sea which may ...
At least seven artificial bodies of water (Smeaton Lake, Pressmennan Lake, Lake Louise (within the grounds of Skibo Castle), Pitfour Lake (near Mintlaw), Hirsel Lake (near Coldstream), Cally Lake (near Gatehouse of Fleet) and the imaginatively named The Lake (in the grounds of Gordon Castle near Fochabers)) are also referred to as lakes.
Scotland has very few bodies of water called lakes. The Lake of Menteith, an Anglicisation of the Scots Laich o Menteith meaning a "low-lying bit of land in Menteith", is applied to the loch there because of the similarity of the sounds of the words laich and lake. Until the 19th century the body of water was known as the Loch of Menteith. [5]
At an unknown date, the house was divided into two, and in 2005 the eastern half became offices for Scottish Canals. The building is a category C listed structure. [ 4 ] At the opposite end of the peninsula to the sea lock, a swing bridge carries the Far North railway line across the canal.
Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.. This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland. List of burghs in Scotland; List of census localities in Scotland;