Caol
Caol is a village near Fort William, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about 1+1⁄4 miles north of Fort William town centre, on the shore of Loch Linnhe, and is within the parish of Kilmallie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steven Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Banavie railway station and Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar.
Banavie railway station
Railway station
Photo: T0m, Public domain.
Banavie railway station is a railway station on the West Highland Line serving the village of Banavie, although it is much closer to Caol, Scotland. It is sited between Corpach and Fort William, 22 chains from Banavie Junction, just north of Fort William.
Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar
School
Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar is a Gaelic-medium primary school at Caol near Fort William in Scotland.
Neptune’s Staircase
Photo: Klaus with K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Neptune's Staircase is a staircase lock comprising eight locks on the Caledonian Canal. Built by Thomas Telford between 1803 and 1822, it is the longest staircase lock in Britain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lochyside and Banavie.
Banavie
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Banavie is a small settlement near Fort William in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. One of the closest villages to Ben Nevis, it is about 4 kilometres northeast of Fort William town centre, next to Caol and Corpach.
Inverlochy
Suburb
Photo: Metrophil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Inverlochy is a village north of Fort William, Highland, Scotland. Inverlochy is part of the Great Glen Way, a popular hiking and cycling route from Fort William to Inverness.
Caol
- Type: Village with 3,300 residents
- Description: village in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.83822° or 56° 50′ 18″ northLongitude
-5.10198° or 5° 6′ 7″ westPopulation
3,300Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C8PRVQX+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 254872458OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6269280Wikidata ID
Q5034366
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Caol” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Caol”
- Bengali: “কাওল”
- Chinese: “卡奥”
- Chinese: “卡奧”
- Dutch: “Caol”
- French: “Caol”
- German: “Caol”
- Gujarati: “કૅઓલ”
- Irish: “An Caol”
- Japanese: “コール”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಯೋಲ್”
- Korean: “카올”
- Lithuanian: “Kaolis”
- Portuguese: “Caol”
- Russian: “Кэол”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Caol”
- Spanish: “Caol”
- Tamil: “காயல்”
- Telugu: “కాఒళ్.”
- Urdu: “کاول”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tom na Faire Depot and Corpach.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilmallie Free Church of Scotland and Parish of Kilmallie.
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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 “Caol”. Photo: Steven Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.