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Near Loch Lomond, California, is Ben Lomond which was named by Scot John Burns in 1851. In Canada, there is a Loch Lomond by Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well as a Hamlet named for the loch in southern Alberta. [75] Loch Lomond features as the backdrop for a song sequence in the 1998 Bollywood film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. [76] [77]
A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers voted Loch Lomond as the sixth greatest natural wonder in Britain. [12] The Trossachs are an area of wooded hills, glens and lochs that lie to the east of Loch Lomond. The name was originally applied only to a small woodland glen that lies at the centre of the area, but is now generally applied to the wider ...
In 2007, Runrig re-recorded "Loch Lomond" with 50,000 members of the Tartan Army, the supporters of the Scotland national football team. The recording was part of the BBC's Children in Need fundraiser. [45] [46] The single was released as "Loch Lomond (Hampden Remix)" and was a commercial success. It debuted at #1 on the Scottish Singles Chart ...
The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a full planning authority, exercising powers that would otherwise be exercised by the local authority, whilst the Cairngorms National Park has the power to "call in" planning decisions from the local authority where they are considered to conflict with the aims of the park. [28]
Ben Lomond (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laomainn, lit. ' Beacon Mountain '), 974 metres (3,196 ft), is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands.Situated on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, it is the most southerly of the Munros.
'Wee Peter' statue in Loch Lomond, just to the south of the village. Nowadays Luss is a conservation village, with a bypass carrying the busy A82 trunk road. In its position just off the main road to the West Highlands, it is visited by many tourists, and has a large car and coach park and a number of tourist-oriented shops.
Balloch Castle is an early 19th-century country house situated at the southern tip of Loch Lomond, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Balloch was a property of the Lennox family from the 11th century, and the old castle was built in the 13th century. In the 19th century the estate was purchased by John Buchanan of Ardoch, who demolished the ...
Balloch Country Park. Balloch Country Park is a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) country park on the southern tip of Loch Lomond in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.It was recognised as a country park in 1980, and it is the only country park in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland's first national park. [1]