Castle Loch | |
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Location | Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
Coordinates | 54°50′58″N 4°40′13″W / 54.8495°N 4.67030°WCoordinates: 54°50′58″N 4°40′13″W / 54.8495°N 4.67030°W |
Type | freshwater loch |
Primary inflows | several small burns |
Primary outflows | Castle Loch burn |
Basin countries | Scotland |
Max. length | 1.25 mi (2.01 km) |
Max. width | 0.5 mi (0.80 km) |
Surface area | 92.5 ha (229 acres) |
Average depth | 6.5 ft (2.0 m) |
Max. depth | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
Water volume | 65,000,000 cu ft (1,800,000 m3) |
Shore length1 | 6.4 km (4.0 mi) |
Surface elevation | 85 m (279 ft) |
Islands | 2 islets |
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
Castle Loch is a large, shallow, freshwater loch in Dumfries and Galloway, in the Southern Uplands of south-west Scotland. It lies to the west of Mochrum Loch and about 9 mi (14 km) west of the town of Wigtown. The loch has 2 islets.
The loch was surveyed in 1903 by James Murray and later charted as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.