Loch Spynie
Loch Spynie is a small loch located between the towns of Elgin and Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. Close to Spynie Palace, the ancient home of the bishops of Moray, it is an important wildlife habitat which is protected as a Ramsar Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elgin Cathedral and Elgin Museum.
Elgin Cathedral
Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elgin Cathedral, a historic ruin in Elgin, Moray, northeast Scotland, was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was established in 1224 on land granted by King Alexander II and stood outside the burgh of Elgin, close to the River Lossie. Elgin Cathedral is situated 2½ miles southwest of Loch Spynie.
Elgin Museum
Museum
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Elgin Museum is a museum of local history in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Its collections cover local fossils and geology, archaeology, ethnography, art and local history. Elgin Museum is situated 2½ miles southwest of Loch Spynie.
Grant Park
Sports venue
Photo: Suxamethonium, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lossiemouth Football Club are a senior football club from Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. They play in the Highland League. Founded in 1945, they were admitted to the Highland League for season 1946-47 and have played in this league since that point. Grant Park is situated 2½ miles north of Loch Spynie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elgin and Lossiemouth.
Elgin
Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elgin is the county town of Moray in northeast Scotland, best known for its ruined cathedral which made it a "city". Together with nearby Lossiemouth it's the service town for two nearby Royal Air Force bases, with a population in 2016 of 24,760.
Lossiemouth
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Lossiemouth is a village on the coast of Moray in North East Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.
Urquhart
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Urquhart is a small village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 5 miles east of Elgin, and one mile NE of the larger village of Lhanbryde. It is just over 1 mile north of the main A96 road connecting Elgin and Keith, and about 2 miles south of the Moray Firth coast. Urquhart is situated 4 miles southeast of Loch Spynie.
Loch Spynie
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Category: lake
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.68093° or 57° 40′ 51″ northLongitude
-3.2809° or 3° 16′ 51″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9C9RMPJ9+9JOpenStreetMap ID
way 108780801OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Loch Spynie” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Loch Spynie”
- Japanese: “スピニー湖”
- Swedish: “Loch Spynie”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Spynie Church Ruins and Caysbriggs Quarry.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loch Spynie”. Photo: Ritchyblack, FAL.