Cove (Argyll and Bute)

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Cove
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Coordinates 56 ° 0 ′  N , 4 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′  N , 4 ° 51 ′  W
Cove (Scotland)
Cove
Cove
Residents 1414 together with Kilcreggan (2001 census)
administration
Post town HELENSBURGH
ZIP code section G84
prefix 01436
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Argyll and Bute
British Parliament Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament Dumbarton

Cove is a small town in a sparsely populated region of the Scottish Unitary Authority Argyll and Bute . It is located about seven kilometers northwest of Greenock and west of Helensburgh on the Rosneath Peninsula . The village stretches along the coast of the arm of the sea, Loch Long, and is partly located on the secondary bay of Cove Bay . Together with Kilcreggan to the southeast, 876 people lived in Cove in 1961. By 2001 this number had increased to 1,414.

Cove is connected to the road network by the B833 which runs largely along the coast of Rosneath . In the village there are two monuments of the highest Scottish monument category A, the country house Knockderry Castle and the Villa Craig Ailey .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Information in the Gazetter for Scotland
  2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland

Web links

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