Castle Loch, Wigtownshire
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Castle Loch is a large, shallow, freshwater loch in Wigtownshire. It lies amongst the Southern Uplands, to the west of Mochrum Loch, nine miles west of the county town, Wigtown.[1]
The loch is a mile and a quarter long and half a mile wide,[1] and spreads over 229 acres.[2] It contains two islets.
Survey
The loch was surveyed in 1903 by James Murray[1] and later charted[3] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.
Outside links
- Location map: 54°50’58"N, 4°40’13"W
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909, Lochs of the Cree Basin: NLS
- ↑ Castle Loch - British Lakes
- ↑ Lochs Castle & Mochrum (Vol. 5, Plate 41) - Bathymetrical Survey, 1897-1909 - NLS