Lochgilphead
Lochgilphead is a town and also former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom, with a populace of around 2,300 people. It is the management centre of Argyll as well as Bute. The town exists at the end of Loch Gilp (a branch of Loch Fyne) as well as pushes the banks of the Crinan Canal. Lochgilphead rests on the A83, with Ardrishaig 2 miles (3 km) to the south and Inveraray 24 miles (39 km) to the north-east; Oban exists 37 miles (60 km) north on the A816. The council is based at Kilmory Castle, around which is found a woodland park and also an Iron Age ft. Forestry and also Land Scotland also have an office there. Lochgilphead's facilities consist of a pool, sports centre, angling take on shop, three financial institutions, Co-op Food grocery store, 2 petrol stations, three homewear and hardware shops, a Renault dealer, a community hospital run by the neighborhood General practitioners (with an A&E department and also a psychiatric hospital), a 9-hole golf course, bowling club, a hydrotherapy swimming pool, a local land fill site at Dunchologan and Lochgilphead High School. The community is residence to shinty group Kilmory Camanachd and also football team, Lochgilphead Red Star.