Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dochart

Dochart, river, Killin par., Perthshire; issues from Loch Dochart, and flows NE. along Glen Dochart to Loch Tay at Killin; is 13 miles long, and has good salmon and trout fishing. Loch Dochart lies at the head of the glen, 1 mile E. of Crianlarich sta., and contains an islet on which are the ruins of a castle of the Campbells of Lochawe.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Killin ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Dochart

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