Inveruglas
| Inveruglas Gaelic: Inbhir Dhubhghlais | |
| Dunbartonshire | |
|---|---|
 Loch Lomond by Inveruglas | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NN320097 |
| Location: | 56°15’0"N, 4°42’47"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Alexandria |
| Postcode: | G83 |
| Dialling code: | 01301 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Argyll and Bute |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Argyll and Bute |
Inveruglas is a hamlet in Dunbartonshire on the western shore of Loch Lomond. It is fairly near the north end of the loch and is within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
The hamlet is to be found on the A82 trunk road, connecting Glasgow to Inverness.
On the loch are many small islands, and those close to Inveruglas include Inveruglas Isle, which lies in Inveruglas Bay (an inlet of the loch) has a ruined castle;[1] and Wallace's Isle. On the opposite shore of the loch in Stirlingshire, is Inversnaid, and there is a pedestrian ferry between the two.
The Inveruglas Water flows into the loch at the hamlet, flowing down from Loch Sloy. The name of this watercourse is a curious back-formation, since Inveruglas means "the mouth of the Douglas". It may have acquired this name to differentiate it from the Douglas Water a few miles further south.
Loch Lomond and Cowal Way
The Loch Lomond and Cowal Way starts and finishes at Inveruglas. This 57-mile waymarked footpath terminates at Portavadie in the Cowal Peninsula of Argyllshire, on the east shore of Loch Fyne.[2]
Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme
The renewable hydroelectric schemes generation hall is located on the shore of Loch Lomond at Inveruglas, part of the Sloy/Awe Hydro-Electric Scheme. Opened by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002) in 1950.[3]
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