Loch Howie
Loch Howie is a small, narrow, upland freshwater loch on the north side of Blackcraig Hill, approximately 18 miles west of Dumfries, Scotland. The loch trends from south-west to north-east and is 0.75 mi long by approximately 0.25 mi at its widest point.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balmaclellan and St John’s Town of Dalry.
Balmaclellan
Village
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Balmaclellan is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, the larger and more prosperous New Galloway lies below the Rhinns of Kells. Balmaclellan is situated 4½ miles southwest of Loch Howie.
St John’s Town of Dalry
Village
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St John's Town of Dalry, usually referred to simply as Dalry, is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire. St John’s Town of Dalry is situated 6 miles west of Loch Howie.
New Galloway
Village
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New Galloway is a town in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the west side of the valley of the Water of Ken, 1 mile north of the end of Loch Ken. New Galloway is situated 6 miles southwest of Loch Howie.
Loch Howie
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, outflows east to Mid Burn
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Loch Howie” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Loch Howie”
- Swedish: “Loch Howie”
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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 Howie”. Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.