Garelochhead Forest
Garelochhead Forest is a forest in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. Garelochhead Forest is situated nearby to the locality Letter, as well as near the hamlet Coulport.Places of Interest
Highlights include HMNB Clyde and RNAD Coulport.
HMNB Clyde
Military installation
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His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde is the Royal Navy's main shore establishment in Scotland. It is home to the United Kingdom's fleet of nuclear submarines, including attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines.
RNAD Coulport
Military installation
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport, shortened to RNAD Coulport, on Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the nuclear warheads of the United Kingdom's Trident programme.
Knockderry Castle
Manor estate
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knockderry Castle, is a house on the Shore Road in Cove on the Rosneath Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. Designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson in the 1850s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garelochhead and Rosneath.
Garelochhead
Village
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garelochhead is a small village on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is the nearest village to HM Naval Base Clyde. Garelochhead lies 7 miles northwest of Helensburgh. Loch Lomond is a few miles to the east, and Loch Long to the west.
Rosneath
Village
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rosneath is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A 2025 study declared it to be a town but this is controversial. It sits on the western shore of the Gare Loch, 2 miles northwest of Rosneath Point at the tip of the Rosneath Peninsula, where the loch meets the Firth of Clyde.
Ardentinny
Village
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Ardentinny is a small village on the western shore of Loch Long, 14 miles north of Dunoon in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Nearby is Cruach a' Chaise. On the opposite side of Loch Long is the village of Coulport, home of RNAD Coulport, the storage and loading base for the UK's Trident submarine fleet, part of the extensive HMNB Clyde.
Garelochhead Forest
- Type: Forest
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.0435° or 56° 2′ 37″ northLongitude
-4.8554° or 4° 51′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C8Q24VV+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 91264679OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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Localities in the Area
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