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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 ...
Map of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, in Argyll, Dumbartonshire, Perthshire and Stirlingshire: Date: 25 November 2014: Source: Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park UK location map.svg; British Isles in counties.svg; Author: Hogweard: Permission (Reusing this file)
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]
Looking eastwards along Loch Katrine in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Each national park in Scotland is administered by a national park authority. Under the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000, national parks in Scotland have four aims: [1] To conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the area
The Trossachs form part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, which was established in 2002. [4] The area has long been visited by tourists due to the relative proximity of major population centres such as Glasgow and Stirling, and remains popular with walkers, cyclists and tourists. [1]
Map of Scotland showing the district of Lennox. The Lennox (Scottish Gaelic: Leamhnachd, pronounced [ˈʎãũnəxk]) is a region of Scotland centred on The Vale of Leven, including its great loch: Loch Lomond. The Gaelic name of the river is Lìomhann, meaning the smooth stream, which anglicises to Leven (as Gaelic mh is spirantised).
View south along the A83 road over Loch Fyne. From Tarbet the A83 runs west across the watershed between Loch Lomond and Loch Long to Arrochar near the head of Loch Long. It then goes round the head of the loch, and along the western shore for a short distance, before turning northwest through the Rest and be Thankful mountain pass through Glen Croe in the Arrochar Alps, from the shore of Loch ...
Loch Lomond Nature Reserve. Adjacent to the River Endrick. The national nature reserve (NNR) holds a number of other overlapping conservation designations.The Endrick Mouth and Islands Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is almost directly coincident with the NNR, [16] whilst the Portnellan - Ross Priory - Claddochside SSSI overlaps with the NNR at the western edge of the mainland ...