Coulport
Coulport is a village on the east side of Loch Long and the west side of the Rosneath Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It is 5 miles north-north-west of Cove.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Coalport”
Places of Interest
Highlights include RNAD Coulport and HMNB Clyde.
RNAD Coulport
Military installation
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport, shortened to RNAD Coulport, on Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the nuclear warheads of the United Kingdom's Trident programme.
HMNB Clyde
Military installation
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His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde, primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy. HMNB Clyde is situated 2½ miles northeast of Coulport.
Knockderry Castle
Manor estate
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knockderry Castle, is a house on the Shore Road in Cove on the Rosneath Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. Designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson in the 1850s. Knockderry Castle is situated 2 miles south of Coulport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ardpeaton and Rahane.
Ardpeaton
Hamlet
Ardpeaton is a settlement on the Rosneath Peninsula in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. On the east shore of Loch Long. The population is under 1000.
Rahane
Hamlet
Rahane is a clachan in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of the Gare Loch in the Rosneath peninsula, 2.3 miles south of the larger settlement of Garelochhead and 11 miles northwest by road from the town of Helensburgh.
Ardentinny
Village
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Ardentinny is a small village on the western shore of Loch Long, 14 miles north of Dunoon in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Nearby is Cruach a Chaise. On the opposite side of Loch Long is the village of Coulport, home of RNAD Coulport, the storage and loading base for the UK's Trident submarine fleet, part of the extensive HMNB Clyde. Ardentinny is situated 1½ miles west of Coulport.
Coulport
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.03885° or 56° 2′ 20″ northLongitude
-4.86762° or 4° 52′ 3″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB COUOpen location code
9C8Q24QJ+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1679109947OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2652250Wikidata ID
Q3778769
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Coulport” goes by many names.
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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 “Coulport”. Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.