Benderloch

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{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = Benderloch

| gaelic_name = Meadarloch

| country = Scotland

| coordinates = {{Coord|56|29|32|N|5|24|13|W|region:GB_type:city|display=inline,title}}

| os_grid_reference = NM903388

| unitary_scotland = Argyll and Bute

| lieutenancy_scotland = Argyll and Bute

| static_image_name = St Modan's Church, Benderloch.JPG

| static_image_caption = St Modan's Church, Benderloch, October 2014

| post_town = OBAN

| postcode_district = PA37

| postcode_area = PA

| constituency_westminster = Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber

| constituency_scottish_parliament = Argyll and Bute

}}

Benderloch ({{langx|gd|Meadarloch}}, {{IPA|gd|ˈmet̪əɾl̪ˠɔx|pron}}) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The name is derived from Beinn eadar dà loch, meaning "mountain between two lochs".{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/gaelic/pdfs/placenamesA-B.pdf |title=Placenames |author=Iain Mac an Tàilleir |year=2003 |publisher=Pàrlamaid na h-Alba |format=pdf |access-date=23 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923125128/http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/vli/language/gaelic/pdfs/placenamesA-B.pdf |archive-date=23 September 2011 }}

Benderloch lies on the A828 roadOS Explorer Map 376 "Oban & North Lorn" published 29 January 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-319-23898-1}} in the coastal parish of Ardchattan and Muckairn, Argyll, Scotland.

It grew up as the railway line from Ballachulish to Connel was completed in the early part of the 1900s, between the older locations of Selma and Craigneuk. It is marked on 1900s Ordnance Survey maps as New Selma.{{cite web |title=Georeferenced Maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland |url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=56.49200&lon=-5.40300&layers=6&b=1&o=100&marker=56.492,-5.403 |website=maps.nls.uk}}

Its railway station closed in 1966.

Benderloch has a village shop (the renowned "Pink Shop"), garage, caravan and leisure store, cafe and a forest walk up to a viewpoint on the summit of Beinn Lora.

Benderloch forms part of the Lynn of Lorn National Scenic Area, one of forty in Scotland.[http://www.snh.gov.uk/protecting-scotlands-nature/protected-areas/national-designations/nsa/ "National Scenic Areas"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311014235/http://www.snh.gov.uk/protecting-scotlands-nature/protected-areas/national-designations/nsa/ |date=2017-03-11 }}. SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011.