Sanquhar Loch
Sanquhar Loch is a lake in Moray, Scotland. Sanquhar Loch is situated nearby to the locality Practice Area, as well as near the suburb Forbes Hill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake in Moray, Scotland, UK, on Burn of Mosset
- Also known as: “Sanquahar Loch”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forres Academy and Forres railway station.
Forres Academy
School
Forres Academy is a comprehensive community school serving the town of Forres, Scotland, and its rural catchment area in west Moray. As in other Scottish schools, pupils are able to leave after the fourth year of schooling; therefore, the fifth and sixth years are not compulsory.
Forres railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forres railway station serves the town of Forres, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, between Nairn and Elgin, measured 119 miles 42 chains from Perth via the Dava route.
Sueno’s Stone
Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in Moray and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in Scotland, standing 6.5 metres in height.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forres and Rafford.
Forres
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Rafford
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rafford is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles northwest of the village of Dallas. Rafford is situated 2 miles southeast of Sanquhar Loch.
Kinloss
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from Findhorn and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939. Kinloss is situated 2½ miles northeast of Sanquhar Loch.
Sanquhar Loch
- Category: lake
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.60245° or 57° 36′ 9″ northLongitude
-3.60699° or 3° 36′ 25″ westElevation
92 feet (28 metres)Open location code
9C9RJ92V+X6OpenStreetMap ID
way 89413435OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sanquhar Loch” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sanquhar Loch”
- Swedish: “Sanquhar Loch”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Practice Area and Forbes Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Forres Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre and Roysvale Park.
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