Lochgilphead
Lochgilphead is a community 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 and also Bute. The town lies at the end of Loch Gilp (a branch of Loch Fyne) as well as pushes the financial institutions of the Crinan Canal. Lochgilphead remains on the A83, with Ardrishaig 2 miles (3 kilometres) to the south and also Inveraray 24 miles (39 kilometres) to the north-east; Oban lies 37 miles (60 kilometres) north on the A816. The council is based at Kilmory Castle, around which is located a timberland park and also an Iron Age fort. Forestry as well as Land Scotland also have an office there. Lochgilphead's facilities include a swimming pool, sports centre, fishing tackle store, 3 financial institutions, Co-op Food supermarket, 2 petrol stations, three homewear and equipment stores, a Renault dealership, a community medical facility run by the neighborhood General practitioners (with an A&E department and also a psychiatric hospital), a 9-hole golf links, bowling club, a hydrotherapy swimming pool, a regional landfill site at Dunchologan and also Lochgilphead High School. The community is home to shinty group Kilmory Camanachd and football team, Lochgilphead Red Star.