Asgog Loch
Asgog Loch is a natural freshwater loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located about 4 kilometres southwest of Tighnabruaich, on the Cowal peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake dammed as a reservoir in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, outflows east via a watercourse to Allt Osda
- Also known as: “Ascog” and “Loch Ascog”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station.
Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Johnny Durnan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station is located at the harbour at Tighnabruaich, a village on the Cowal peninsula, on the Kyles of Bute, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Tighnabruaich Lifeboat Station is situated 2½ miles northeast of Asgog Loch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Millhouse and Polphail.
Millhouse
Village
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millhouse is a village in the parish of Kilfinan. Located on the B8000 inland from Kames in the east and Portavadie in the west, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.
Polphail
Locality
Polphail was a ghost village, located at Portavadie in Argyll & Bute, Scotland. Originally built in the 1970s, it was never occupied and was demolished in 2016.
Portavadie
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portavadie is a village on the shores of Loch Fyne on the coast of the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland. The Portavadie complex was built in 1975 by the then Scottish Office for the purpose of constructing concrete platforms for extraction of oil from the North Sea.
Asgog Loch
- Categories: lake and reservoir
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.8837° or 55° 53′ 1″ northLongitude
-5.28142° or 5° 16′ 53″ westElevation
177 feet (54 metres)Open location code
9C7PVPM9+FCOpenStreetMap ID
way 26342149OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Asgog Loch” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Asgog Loch”
- French: “Asgog Loch”
- Swedish: “Asgog Loch”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Auchoirk Farm and Derybruich.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ascog Keep and Cnoc a‘ Chaisteil.
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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 “Asgog Loch”. Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.