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Those on Scottish islands can be found in a section at the end. For Scottish estuaries, please see under firths and sea lochs. The Scots have many words for watercourses. A "Water" (Lallans: "Watter", Scots Gaelic, "Uisge") is a smaller river, e.g. Ugie Water, Water of Leith etc. Many Scottish rivers incorporate the name "Water" traditionally.
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 ...
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 ...
Confusingly 'linn' can denote either a fall or the plunge pool or indeed a confined stretch of water. ‘Spout’ is another common word found throughout England and Scotland for particular types of fall though it is usually replaced by ‘sput’ in the formerly Gaelic-speaking parts of the latter.
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The following is a list of bays in Scotland. Map of Scottish administrative counties A Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Name County Nearest Town or Village Coordinates Notes Aberdour Bay Aberdeenshire Rosehearty 57°40′38″N 2°11′22″W / 57.6771°N 2.1895°W ...
Waterways in Scotland (2 C) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Scotland" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect ...
Waterways organisations in Scotland (1 C, 8 P) This page was last edited on 8 April 2017, at 10:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...