Loch Goil is a small sea loch in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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It is an arm of Loch Long

Loch Long

Loch Long is a body of water in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The sea loch extends from the Firth of Clyde at its southwestern end. It measures approximately 20 miles in length, with a width of between one and two miles...

. The village of Lochgoilhead

Lochgoilhead

Lochgoilhead ) is a small village of some 300-400 people and is in the Scottish Highlands in Argyll, Scotland.Situated at the head of Loch Goil, where the Goil river, which rises on nearby Ben Donich and Beinn an Lochain, flows into the loch , it is surrounded by mountains rising as high as 3 000...

 stands at its head.

Located in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, Lochgoilhead sits at the head of Loch Goil, a fjord type sea loch. Only an hour from the Erskine Bridge

Erskine Bridge

The Erskine Bridge is a cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland, connecting West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire....

, Glasgow Airport

Glasgow Airport

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 the M8

M8 motorway

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 and Glasgow. The village is accessed from the Rest & Be Thankful pass by way of a 6 mile single-track road. The area is surrounded by hills and mountains, with loch views, and a range of accommodation, leisure activities and entertainment.

Several Scottish Sea Fishing shore records are attributed to the Loch:

Species	Weight	Angler / Year
Gurnard, Streaked	01-06-08	H. L. Smith, 1971
Haddock	06-12-00	G. Stevenson, 1976
Pipefish, Greater	00-01-13	J.C. Ogilvie, 1992
Wrasse, Goldsinny	00-01-13	T. Lambert, 1977

The landscape at Loch Goil shows its remoteness and Highland grandeur with the Arrochar Alps

Arrochar Alps

The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the head of Loch Long, Loch Fyne,and Loch Goil, near the villages of Arrochar and Lochgoilhead in Argyll, Scotland. The mountains are especially popular with hillwalkers, due to their proximity and accessibility from Glasgow...

 surrounding with conifers in the Highlands of Scotland.

It is used for exercises by Trident submarine

Trident submarine

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s from HMNB Clyde

HMNB Clyde

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at Faslane.

External links

• Map showing Loch Goyll (Loch Goil), circa 1600, National Library of Scotland