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