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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 ...
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 ...
In the Scottish settlement of Glengarry County in present-day Eastern Ontario, there is a lake called Loch Garry. [8] Loch Garry was named by those who settled in the area, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry , after the well-known loch their clan is from, Loch Garry in Scotland.
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.
Loch Leven Castle island, where Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in 1567. A map of the 1800s showing the islands of Loch Lomond The freshwater islands in Scotland include those within freshwater lochs and rivers – including tidal areas, so the islands may not always be surrounded by freshwater. It has been estimated that there are at least 31,460 freshwater lochs in Scotland and that 1.9 ...
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The Canals of Scotland. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4240-4. McKnight, Hugh (1981). The Shell Book of Inland Waterways. David and Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8239-4. Paterson, Len (2005). From Sea to Sea: A history of the Scottish lowland and highland canals. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 978-1-903238-94-3.