Loch Dochart

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| name = Loch Dochart

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| image = Loch Dochart - geograph.org.uk - 1577441.jpg

| alt = Loch Dochart

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|pushpin_map=Scotland Stirling

| location = Perthshire, Scotland

|coords = {{coord|56|23|47|N|4|35|3|W|region:GB_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}

| type = freshwater loch

| inflow = River Fillan

| outflow = River Dochart

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| basin_countries = Scotland

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| length = {{convert|0.66|mi|km|abbr=on|order=flip}}

| width ={{convert|0.16|mi|km|abbr=on|order=flip}}

| area = {{convert|46|acre|ha|abbr=on|order=flip}}

| depth = {{convert|5|ft|m|abbr=on|order=flip}}

| max-depth = {{convert|11|ft|m|abbr=on|order=flip}}

| volume = {{convert|10032000|ft3|m3|abbr=on|order=flip}}

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| elevation = {{convert|513|ft|m|abbr=on|order=flip}}

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| islands = 1 islet

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Loch Dochart is a small freshwater loch on the Lochdochart Estate in Stirling, Scottish Highlands. It lies approximately {{convert|1.7|km|mi|abbr=on}} to the east of the town of Crianlarich at the foot of Ben More.{{cite web |url=http://maps.nls.uk/bathymetric/text.cfm?cid=37251|title=Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909, Lochs of the Tay Basin|author= |website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=National Library of Scotland|access-date=2014-08-20}} There is a small wooded island in the middle of the loch on which stands the ruins of a castle originally built by Sir Duncan Campbell between 1583 and 1631.{{cite web |url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/23956/details/loch+dochart+castle/|title=Loch Dochart Castle|author= |date=29 June 1962|website=www.canmore.rcahms.gov.uk|publisher=Canmore|access-date=2014-08-20}}.

The loch was surveyed on 11 May, 1902 by T.N. Johnston and James Parsons and later charted {{cite web|url=http://maps.nls.uk/view/74422121 |title=Lochs Dochart & Iubhair (Vol. 3, Plate 20) - Bathymetrical Survey, 1897-1909 - National Library of Scotland |website=www.nls.uk|access-date=2014-08-20}} as part of Sir John Murray's The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.{{cite book

|last1=Murray

|first1=John

|author-link1=John Murray (oceanographer)

|last2=Pullar

|first2=Laurence

|title=Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland during the years 1897 to 1909: report on scientific results

|url=http://maps.nls.uk/bathymetric/text.cfm?seq=1

|year=1910

|location=Edinburgh

}}

References

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