Largest loch (surface area): Loch Lomond.

Largest loch (volume of water): Loch Ness.

Deepest loch: Loch Morar (I 077ft/328m deep).

Longest inland loch: Loch Awe, Argyll (25 m/1 km long)

Longest sea loch: Loch Fyne

Loch famed for seafood: Loch Fyne, Argyll.

Lochs linked by the Caleclonian Canal: Loch Dochfinir, Loch Ness, Loch Oich, Loch Lochy.

Vanished loch: The Nor’ Loch, Edinburgh. The Nor’ Loch, now the site of Princes Street Gardens, was originally created in the fifteenth century as part of the town’s defences. It soon became a stinking pool where the worst of the city’s refuse was deposited. It was clearly a health hazard and was drained in the eighteenth century when Edinburgh’s New Town was built.

Scotland’s only lake: The Lake of Menteith, Perthshire.

Scottish Loch Monsters

Everyone has heard of Nessie, the monster who is said to inhabit the waters of Loch Ness. Many people are also aware of the alleged existence of Morag, the monster of Loch Morar. Nessie and Morag are not the only ones, it would seem. There are quite a number of lochs around Scotland where monsters have allegedly been sighted. Some of the monsters have been given names,

Loch Arkaig Knoydart (Archie)

Loch Assynt, Ross-shire

Loch Awe, Argyll

Loch Beisre, Wester Ross

Cauldshilods Loch, Borders

Loch Duvat, Eriskay

Loch Fyne, Argyll

Loch Eil, Inverness-shire

Loch Laggan, Inverness-shire

Loch Linnhe, Inverness-shire

Loch Lochy, Great Glen (Lizzie)

Loch Lomond, Stirlingshire

Loch Meikle, near Drumnadrochit

Loch Oich, Great Glen (Wee Oichy)

Loch Quoich, 1nverness-shire (Quoichy)

Loch Rannoch, Perthshire

Loch Shiel, Lochaber (Shielagh)

Loch Tay, Perthshire

Loch Trieg, Trossachs

Loch Vennachair, Rasay

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