Bonawe
Bonawe is a village in Ardchattan Parish Argyll and Bute, Scotland opposite Taynuilt on the north shore of Loch Etive, most famous for the shipping firm J & A Gardener's Bonawe Quarry - now owned by Breedon Aggregates Scotland Ltd.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bunawe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bonawe Iron Furnace and Taynuilt railway station.
Bonawe Iron Furnace
Museum
Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bonawe Iron Furnace was an industrial complex located in Bonawe, Lorn District, Scotland. It operated in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the aim of producing pig iron.
Taynuilt railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Taynuilt railway station is a railway station serving the village of Taynuilt in western Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway, between Falls of Cruachan and Connel Ferry, sited 58 miles 55 chains from Callander via Glen Ogle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taynuilt and Connel.
Taynuilt
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taynuilt is a village in Argyll and Bute in the Highlands of Scotland. It's on the south shore of Loch Etive, at a point where the loch is pinched, so for centuries it was a ferry crossing.
Connel
Village
Photo: Droigheann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connel is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is situated on the southern shore of Loch Etive. The Lusragan Burn flows through the village and into the loch. Connel is situated 6 miles west of Bonawe.
Barcaldine
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barcaldine is a small settlement in Scotland centred on the historic Barcaldine House and located on the banks of Loch Creran between Oban and Ballachulish. Barcaldine is situated 6 miles northwest of Bonawe.
Bonawe
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.4483° or 56° 26′ 54″ northLongitude
-5.23018° or 5° 13′ 49″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
9C8PCQX9+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 4162051520OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Bonawe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bonawe”
- Dutch: “Bonawe”
- French: “Bonawe”
- Irish: “Bun Abha, Earra-Ghàidheal”
- Irish: “Bun Abha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bun Abha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bun Obha”
- Slovenian: “Bonawe”
- Ukrainian: “Боно”
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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 “Bonawe”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.