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Lochgilphead

Lochgilphead (Scottish Gaelic Ceann Loch Gilb, ) is a town and former burgh

Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
in Scotland

Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, with a population of around 3,000 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 Council areas of Scotland; and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland in Scotland. The administrative centre for the council area is located in Lochgilphead....
. The town lies at the end of Loch Gilp

Loch Gilp

Loch Gilp is a small inlet on Loch Fyne which gives its name to Lochgilphead. The Crinan Canal extends from the loch across to Crinan itself....
(itself a branch of Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne is a sea loch on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends 65 kilometres inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest of the sea lochs....
) and lies on the banks of the Crinan Canal

Crinan Canal

The Crinan canal is a canal in the west of Scotland. It takes its name from the village of Crinan which is located at its westerly end. Nine miles long, it connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable route between the River Clyde and the Inner Hebrides, without the need for a long diversion...
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The council is based at Kilmory Castle

Kilmory Castle

Kilmory Castle, also known as Kilmory House, is a large 19th century house located just to the south of Lochgilphead, in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland....
, around which is located a woodland

Woodland

Ecologically, a woodland is an area covered in trees, usually at low density, forming an open habitat, allowing sunlight to penetrate between the trees, and limiting shade....
park

Park

A park is a Environmental protection, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment....
and an Iron Age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
fort. The Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in Great Britain. Its mission is to protect and expand Britain's forests and woodlands and increase their value to society and the environment....
also have an office there.

Lochgilphead's facilities include a swimming pool

Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming or water-based recreation....
, sports centre, three bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution whose primary activity is to act as a payment agent for customers and to borrow and lend money. It is an institution for receiving, keeping, and lending money....
s, supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket is a self-service Retailing#Retail types offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments....
, Renault

Renault

Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., it is currently the world's 4th largest automaker.It owns the Romanian automaker Dacia and the Korean automaker Renault Samsung Motors....
dealership, a community hospital run by the local GPs, psychiatric hospital, 9-hole golf course, a hydrotherapy pool, a regional landfill site at Dunchologan and Lochgilphead High School

Lochgilphead High School

Lochgilphead High School in Lochgilphead, Argyll is a secondary school servicing around 500 students. A new campus has been built incorporating Lochgilphead High School, Lochgilphead Primary School and the White Gates Learning Centre....
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The town is home to shinty

Shinty

Shinty is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played almost exclusively in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas where Scottish Highlanders mi...
team Kilmory Camanachd

Kilmory Camanachd

Kilmory Camanachd is a shinty club from Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. The club was founded in 1977 in its present form. The club plays in South Division One and has a reserve side in the Bullough cup....
and football team, Lochgilphead Red Star.

planned settlement, Lochgilphead was created in 1790 shortly after the completion of a road from Inveraray

Inveraray

Inveraray is a town and former Royal Burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, located on the western shore of Loch Fyne near its head, and on the A83 road....
to Campbeltown

Campbeltown

Campbeltown is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, located by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran - this form is still used in Gaelic....
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Lochgilphead (Scottish Gaelic Ceann Loch Gilb, ) is a town and former burgh

Burgh

Scotland

Argyll and Bute

Loch Gilp

Loch Gilp is a small inlet on Loch Fyne which gives its name to Lochgilphead. The Crinan Canal extends from the loch across to Crinan itself....
(itself a branch of Loch Fyne

Loch Fyne

Crinan Canal

Kilmory Castle

Woodland

Ecologically, a woodland is an area covered in trees, usually at low density, forming an open habitat, allowing sunlight to penetrate between the trees, and limiting shade....
park

Park

A park is a Environmental protection, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment....
and an Iron Age

Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
fort. The Forestry Commission

Forestry Commission

Swimming pool

Bank

Supermarket

A supermarket is a self-service Retailing#Retail types offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments....
, Renault

Renault

Lochgilphead High School

Shinty

Kilmory Camanachd

History

As a planned settlement, Lochgilphead was created in 1790 shortly after the completion of a road from Inveraray

Inveraray

Inveraray is a town and former Royal Burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, located on the western shore of Loch Fyne near its head, and on the A83 road....
to Campbeltown

Campbeltown

Crinan Canal

Kintyre

Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the south-west of Argyll and Bute. The region stretches approximately 30 miles , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south, to East Loch Tarbert, Kintyre in the north....
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Community and culture

In July 1982, Lochgilphead competed against teams from Perth

Perth, Scotland

Perth is a town and former royal burgh in central Scotland. Sitting on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative headquarters of Perth and Kinross council area....
and Oban

Oban

Oban is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It has a total resident population of 8,120. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William, Highland and during the tourist season the town can be crowded by up to 25,000 people....
in the then highly popular BBC Television

BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC which began in 1932. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927....
It's a Knockout
It's a Knockout

It's a Knockout was a popular United Kingdom television gameshow. Sports commentators included Eddie Waring, David Vine and Stuart Hall - who was famous for collapsing into genuine hysterical laughter mid-way through commentating on any particular game on a regular basis....
, presented by Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall (television presenter)

Stuart Hall is a BBC radio and television presenter.Named James Stuart Hall the eldest son of a baker: James Stuart Hall Snr and his wife Mary , Stuart was brought up in Glossop, Derbyshire where he attended the local grammar school before studying at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology....
. The town's team won their round and later competed in the international version of the series, 'Jeux Sans Frontieres

Jeux Sans Frontieres

Jeux Sans Fronti?res is a Europe-wide television game show.In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes competing to complete bizarre tasks in funny games....
', which was recorded in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
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Filmography

In the World War Two movie, 633 Squadron
633 Squadron

633 Squadron is a 1964 film which depicts the exploits of a fictional World War II UK fighter-bomber squadron. It was directed by Walter Grauman and produced by Cecil F....
, Lochgilphead's main street features briefly in an aerial shot, as the bombers of 633 Squadron fly over the unnamed town en route to the target in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
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Invention and discovery

The Argyll Turbo GT

Argyll (automobile)

Argyll was a Scotland motor car marque manufactured from 1899 to 1932, and again from 1976 to around 1990....
sportscar was built by Bob Henderson in Manse Brae.

Notable people

The singer Sydney MacEwan

Sydney MacEwan

Canon Sydney MacEwan was a Scotland tenor and singer of traditional Scottish and Ireland songs.He was born and brought up in the Springburn area of Glasgow by his mother alone after his father left the family, and was the younger of two brothers....
had built, and was for a time parish priest of, the R.C. church in the town.

The footballer Neil Dewar

Neil Dewar

Neil Hamilton Dewar was a Scotland Association football who played for Third Lanark A.C., Manchester United F.C., Sheffield Wednesday F.C. and the Scotland national football team....
was born in the town.

External links

- The Argyllshire Advertiser for Lochgilphead and Mid Argyll news
- It's A Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontières 1982 history