Kilchoan
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 Kilchoan Bay. Ben Hiant, the highest point of the peninsula rises beyond the small moored boats and bay. | |
  Kilchoan Location within the Lochaber area | |
| Population | 150 |
| OS grid reference | NM488637 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Acharacle |
| Postcode district | PH36 4 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
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Kilchoan (Scottish Gaelic: Cille Chòmhain)[1] is a village on the Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan, beside the Sound of Mull in Lochaber, Highland. It is the most westerly village in mainland Britain,[2] although several tiny hamlets lie further west on the peninsula (of these, the most westerly is called Portuairk). The western linear, coastal parts of the village are Ormsaigmore and Ormsaigbeg.
Kilchoan has a population of about 150 people.[3]
- ^ "Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba - Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland - Database Kilchoan". www.gaelicplacenames.org. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
- ^ "Kilchoan". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
- ^ Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics: Data Zone S01003739[permanent dead link] Kilchoan forms an imprecise division no more than 5% of the land and has no more than a third of the population of this area, 541 people.