Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Camilla

Camilla, a small loch in the E of Auchtertool parish, Fife, ½ mile NE of Auchtertool village. It took its name from the old mansion of Camilla or Hallyards, measures ¼ by 1/8 mile, and is 22 feet deep. Flanked to the N by a steepish eminence, partly bare rock, partly covered with brushwood, it contains perch, pike, and eels; and sends off a streamlet 2 miles eastward to Raith Lake.


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

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Feature Description: "a small loch"   (ADL Feature Type: "lakes")
Administrative units: Auchtertool ScoP       Fife ScoCnty

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