Loch Luichart

Loch Luichart is a lake in Highland Council, Scotland. Loch Luichart is situated nearby to the hamlet Gorstan, as well as near the village Garve.

Photo: Pip Rolls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lochluichart railway station and Mossford Power Station.

Lochluichart railway station

Railway station

Photo: Craig Wallace, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lochluichart railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Lochluichart in the north of Scotland. The station is located at the north edge of Loch Luichart, 17 miles 20 chains from Dingwall, between Garve and Achanalt. Lochluichart railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Loch Luichart.

Mossford Power Station

Industrial building

Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mossford Power Station is an industrial building, which is situated 2 miles northwest of Loch Luichart.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garve and Achanalt.

Garve

Village

Photo: Donald Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Garve is a village on the Black Water river, in Ross-shire, and is in the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated 5 miles northwest of Contin, on the A835, the main road to Ullapool on the west coast, close to where the A832 branches off towards Achnasheen. Garve is situated 2½ miles east of Loch Luichart.

Achanalt

Hamlet

Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.

Achanalt is a railway halt in Strath Bran, Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish council area of Highland. It is served by a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh. Achanalt is situated 6 miles west of Loch Luichart.

Loch Luichart

Type: Body of water
Description: lake dammed as a reservoir in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Conon
Categories: lake and reservoir
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.60555° or 57° 36′ 20″ north

Longitude

-4.75767° or 4° 45′ 28″ west

Elevation

318 feet (97 metres)

Open location code

9C9QJ64R+6W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4803954

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

GeoNames ID

2643407

Wikidata ID

Q20310220

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Loch Luichart” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Loch Luichart”
Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Luichart”
Serbo-Croatian: “Loch Luichart”
Swedish: “Loch Luichart”

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