Portavadie
Portavadie is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. The Portavadie complex was built in 1975 by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea.Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Port Vadie” and “Portavaidue”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sgat Mòr and Asgog Loch.
Sgat Mòr
Islet
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sgat Mòr is an islet, which is situated 2 miles south of Portavadie.
Asgog Loch
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Asgog Loch is a natural freshwater loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located about 4 kilometres southwest of Tighnabruaich, on the Cowal peninsula.
Sgat Beag
Islet
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sgat Beag is an islet, which is situated 2 miles southeast of Portavadie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millhouse and Kames.
Millhouse
Village
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millhouse is a village in the parish of Kilfinan. Located on the B8000 inland from Kames in the east and Portavadie in the west, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. Millhouse is situated 2 miles east of Portavadie.
Kames
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kames is a small village on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the shore of the west arm of the Kyles of Bute. Kames is now part of a continuous coastal strip of housing that joins onto Tighnabruaich. Kames is situated 3 miles northeast of Portavadie.
Tighnabruaich
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tighnabruaich is a village on the Cowal Peninsula, on the western arm of the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. In 2011 the population was 660. Tighnabruaich is situated 3½ miles northeast of Portavadie.
Portavadie
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.87511° or 55° 52′ 30″ northLongitude
-5.31646° or 5° 18′ 59″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PVDOpen location code
9C7PVMGM+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 539460409OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640079Wikidata ID
Q7231530
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Portavadie” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portavadie”
- Dutch: “Portavadie”
- French: “Portavadie”
- Irish: “Port a‘ Mhadaidh”
- Irish: “Port a’ Mhadaidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port a‘ Mhadaidh”
- Swedish: “Portavadie”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Portavadie and Cnoc na Cille.
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