Loch Leven
Loch Leven is a fresh water loch located immediately to the east of the burgh of Kinross in Perth and Kinross council area, central Scotland. Roughly triangular, the loch is about six kilometres across at its longest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake at Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK, outflows to River Leven
- Also known as: “Loch Lìobhann” and “Lochleven”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lochleven Castle and St Serf’s Inch.
Lochleven Castle
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Lochleven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built around 1300, the castle was the site of military action during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
St Serf’s Inch
Islet
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St Serf's Inch or St Serf's Island is an island in Loch Leven, in south-eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was the home of a Culdee and then an Augustinian monastic community, St Serf's Inch Priory.
Burleigh Castle
Castle
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The remains of Burleigh Castle are located just outside the village of Milnathort, 1.5 miles north of Kinross, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, and now sits beside the A911 road, opposite a 19th-century steading, recently adapted into housing. Burleigh Castle is situated 2½ miles northwest of Loch Leven.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kinnesswood and Scotlandwell.
Kinnesswood
Village
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Kinnesswood, possibly from the Scottish Gaelic: Ceann eas ciad is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and is in the historic county of Kinross-shire. Kinnesswood is situated 1½ miles northeast of Loch Leven.
Scotlandwell
Village
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Scotlandwell is a village in Portmoak, Kinross-shire, Scotland. It is within the Perth and Kinross council area. It lies to the east of Loch Leven, at the junction of the A977 and B920 roads, approximately 4 miles west of Glenrothes and 4 miles east of Kinross. Scotlandwell is situated 2 miles east of Loch Leven.
Kinross
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Kinross is a small town in Perth and Kinross, 13 miles south of Perth. With a population of 5650 in 2021, it stands on the shores of Loch Leven, with the scarp of the Lomond Hills looming to the east and a mysterious giant golf ball to the west.
Loch Leven
- Category: body of water
- Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Loch Leven” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Loch Leven”
- Basque: “Leven aintzira”
- Breton: “Loch Lìobhann”
- Catalan: “Loch Leven”
- Cebuano: “Loch Leven (lanaw sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Scotland, Perth and Kinross, lat 56,20, long -3,37)”
- Cebuano: “Loch Leven”
- Chinese: “利文湖”
- Dutch: “Loch Leven”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لوتش ليڤين”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوخ ليڤين”
- French: “loch Leven”
- French: “Loch Leven”
- German: “Loch Leven”
- Irish: “Loch Líobhann”
- Irish: “Loch Lìobhann”
- Japanese: “リーヴン湖”
- Japanese: “リーブン湖”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loch Leven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Leven”
- Norwegian: “Loch Leven”
- Polish: “Loch Leven (jezioro w Szkocji)”
- Polish: “Loch Leven”
- Portuguese: “Loch Leven”
- Russian: “Лох-Ливен”
- Scots: “Loch Leven”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Loch Leven”
- Spanish: “Lago Leven”
- Swedish: “Loch Leven”
- Ukrainian: “Лох-Левен”
- Welsh: “Loch Leven”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Loch Leven and Reed Bower.
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About Mapcarta. 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 Leven”. Photo: Snaik, CC BY-SA 2.0.