Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Balloch

Balloch.-- vil. with ry. sta., Bonhill par., S. Dumbartonshire, at foot of Loch Lomond, 20½ miles NW. of Glasgow by rail, pop. 159; is the starting place of the Loch Lomond steamers, and in vicinity are the remains of B. Castle, the early seat of the Earls of Lennox; P.O., T.O.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bonhill ScoP       Dunbartonshire ScoCnty
Place: Balloch

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