Linnhe

Open all year; from £325 midweek, £350 weekend, £475 per week; 07931 633544At the south-western end of the Great Glen, where loch Linnhe empties its deep-blue water into the Firth of Lorne, Jim and Nicola found the perfect setting for a campsite.

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He was an observer, in his dream, suspended somehow in the air, over the waves of Loch Linnhe.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

He was far in the past, he knew, for even though this was certainly Loch Linnhe, backed by the outline of Lismore Island and the faint blue hills of the Isle of Mull, there was no sign of Castle Keep.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

Half that day they swam, following the water through the whole great rift that almost cuts Scotland in half, running southwest from Inverness to Fort William, through Loch Ness, Loch Oich, Loch Lochy and Loch Linnhe, from the North Sea to the Sea of the Hebrides.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

Castle Keep loomed square and black out over the rippling waters of Loch Linnhe, but there was a glint of yellow light here and there in its bulk.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001

So there were two weddings in the Castle of Linnhe instead of one.

Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

THE next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own and was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

The next day Mr. Henderland found for me a man who had a boat of his own and was to cross the Linnhe Loch that afternoon into Appin, fishing.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Loch Linnhe and the Murray frith; some made their way through the blue

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

THREETHE FOUR OF THEM sat quietly in Mr. Maconochie’s sixteen-foot outboard dinghy, bobbing at anchor on the heaving grey-green water of Loch Linnhe.

The Boggart and The Monster Susan Cooper 2001