Lochgilphead is a town and previous burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, with a populace of around 2,300 people. It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute. The town lies at the end of Loch Gilp (a branch of Loch Fyne) and pushes the financial institutions of the Crinan Canal. Lochgilphead remains on the A83, with Ardrishaig 2 miles (3 kilometres) to the south and Inveraray 24 miles (39 km) to the north-east; Oban lies 37 miles (60 kilometres) north on the A816. The council is based at Kilmory Castle, around which is found a timberland park as well as an Iron Age ft. Forestry and Land Scotland additionally have an office there. Lochgilphead's centers include a swimming pool, sports centre, angling tackle store, 3 financial institutions, Co-op Food grocery store, two petrol stations, 3 homewear and also equipment stores, a Renault car dealership, an area hospital run by the neighborhood GPs (with an A&E department and a psychiatric hospital), a 9-hole golf course, bowling club, a hydrotherapy swimming pool, a local garbage dump site at Dunchologan as well as Lochgilphead High School. The community is home to shinty group Kilmory Camanachd as well as football group, Lochgilphead Red Star.
