Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.[1]
Coylet
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 Coylet Inn | |
  Coylet Location within Argyll and Bute | |
| OS grid reference | NS 14304 88632 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DUNOON, ARGYLL |
| Postcode district | PA23 |
| Dialling code | 01369 |
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The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It developed around the Coylet Inn, a coaching inn established in the 1650s[2] located on the A815 road that leads to Dunoon, the main town on the peninsula.
The name may be derived from Gaelic caol ait, "narrow place".[3]
Popular culture
editThe 1994 film The Blue Boy is centred around the story of a four-year-old boy drowning in Loch Eck and haunting the Coylet Inn. It was filmed on location at the inn.[4][5] Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.
Gallery
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View from Coylet Inn
Looking ashore from Loch Eck
Aerial view of Coylet
References
edit- ↑ "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ↑ Erskine, Rosalind (15 March 2023). "8 of the oldest pubs in Scotland - including The White Hart and Clachan Inn | Scotsman Food and Drink". foodanddrink.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
- ↑ James Brown Johnston (1903). "Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Nature. 70 (1813) (2nd ed.): 85. Bibcode:1904Natur..70..292.. doi:10.1038/070292a0. OCLC 2204716.
- ↑ "A ghostly legend materialises" - The Herald, 15 August 1994
- ↑ "The Blue Boy" – via www.imdb.com.
External links
edit- Map sources for Coylet
