Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lochty

Lochty, a rivulet, partly of Kinross-shire, but chiefly of Fife. Rising on Bennarty Hill, a little NW of Lochore House, it runs 10¼ miles eastward through or along the boundaries of Ballingry, Portmoak, Kinglassie, Dysart, and Markinch parishes, and falls into the Ore 23/8 miles WSW of the Ore's confluence with the Leven. A bleachfield of its own name is on it within Markinch parish, in the vicinity of Thornton Junction.—Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Fife ScoCnty       Kinross Shire ScoCnty

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