Bowmore
Bowmore is a small town on the Scottish island of Islay, situated on the banks of the sea loch, Loch Indaal. It serves as administrative capital of the island, and gives its name to the noted Bowmore distillery producing Bowmore single malt scotch whisky.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bowmore distillery and Kilarrow Parish Church.
Bowmore distillery
Distillery
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Bowmore distillery is a Islay single malt Scotch whisky distillery located on the Isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery, which lies on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, is one of the oldest in Scotland.
Kilarrow Parish Church
Church
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Kilarrow Church is a Church of Scotland parish church, overlooking and serving Bowmore on the island of Islay. The "Round Church", as it is often known, was built in 1767.
Islay Hospital
Hospital
Islay Hospital is a community hospital in Gortanvogie Road, Bowmore, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridgend and Islay.
Bridgend
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bridgend is a village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay off the western coast of Scotland at the tip of Loch Indaal. The village is within the parish of Killarow and Kilmeny. Bridgend is situated 2½ miles northeast of Bowmore.
Islay
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Islay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 3,228 in 2011. It's mostly low-lying grazing land and heath, with Port Ellen and Bowmore the main settlements.
Bruichladdich
Village
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Bruichladdich is a village, which is situated 3 miles west of Bowmore.
Bowmore
- Type: Town with 804 residents
- Description: village on the Scottish island of Islay
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.7569° or 55° 45′ 25″ northLongitude
-6.28838° or 6° 17′ 18″ westPopulation
804Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
9C7MQP46+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 277014662OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2655051Wikidata ID
Q51906
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Bowmore” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bowmore”
- Basque: “Bowmore”
- Breton: “Am Bogha Mòr”
- Breton: “Bogha Mòr”
- Catalan: “Bowmore”
- Cebuano: “Bowmore”
- Danish: “Bowmore”
- Dutch: “Bowmore”
- French: “Bowmore”
- German: “Bowmore”
- Hebrew: “בוומור”
- Irish: “Bogh Mór”
- Irish: “Bogh Mòr”
- Irish: “Bogha Mór”
- Irish: “Bogha Mòr”
- Italian: “Bowmore”
- Japanese: “ボウモア”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bowmore”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bowmore”
- Norwegian: “Bowmore”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bowmore”
- Persian: “بومور”
- Polish: “Bowmore (Szkocja)”
- Polish: “Bowmore”
- Russian: “Bowmore”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bogh Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bogha Mòr”
- Spanish: “Bowmore”
- Swedish: “Bowmore”
- Turkish: “Bowmore”
- Welsh: “Bowmore”
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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 “Bowmore”. Photo: Fakirbakir, Public domain.