Bellanoch

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Bellanoch
Bridge over the Crinan Canal
Bridge over the Crinan Canal
Coordinates 56 ° 4 ′  N , 5 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 4 ′  N , 5 ° 32 ′  W
Bellanoch (Scotland)
Bellanoch
Bellanoch
Residents 100 (1991 census)
administration
Post town LOCHGILPHEAD
ZIP code section PA31
prefix 01546
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Argyll and Bute
British Parliament Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament Argyll and Bute

Bellanoch is a small town in the Scottish council area Argyll and Bute . It is located on the northern edge of the sparsely populated Knapdale region, about seven kilometers northwest of Lochgilphead and 36 kilometers south of Oban . The Crinan Canal runs through Bellanoch and flows into the Jura Sound a few kilometers to the northwest at Crinan . In 1991 Bellanoch had 100 inhabitants.

Sights and surroundings

There is a jetty in a basin of the Crinan Canal near Bellanoch. A monument from the highest Scottish monument category A can be found at Bellanoch. This is a road bridge on which the B8025 crosses the mouth of the Add River on its way from Bellanoch to Kilmartin . The Islandadd Bridge is a girder bridge that was built in 1851 to designs by the architect John Gardner .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland . 2011.
  2. ^ Cairndow Argyll and Bute. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ Bellanoch. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 1: (A - Coru). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1882, p. 139 .
  4. ↑ Entry on Bellanoch  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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