Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ford-Lochawe

Ford-Lochawe, a village in Kilmartin and Glassary parishes, Argyllshire, ½ mile SSW of the head of Loch Awe, and 12 miles N of Lochgilphead, under which it has a post and telegraph office. During the summer months it forms a point of communication between a public coach running from Ardrishaig and a small steamer sailing up from Brander, at the foot of Loch Awe; and it has an inn, a public school, and an Established mission station, conjoint with one at Lochgair.—Ord. Sur., sh. 37, 1876.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Glassary ScoP       Argyll ScoCnty
Place: Ford

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