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Loch Gelly

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Location
  
Fife, Scotland

Primary inflows
  
Lochgelly burn

Basin countries
  
Scotland

Type
  
freshwater loch

Primary outflows
  
Lochgelly burn

Max. length
  
0.75 mi (1.21 km)

Loch Gelly

Loch Gelly (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a small loch in Fife, Scotland lying approximately 1.5 km to the south east of the town of Lochgelly which itself is named after the loch. The Gaelic name of the loch, Loch Gheallaidh, can be loosely translated as Loch of Shining Waters or Loch of Brightness. It is a broad, shallow flat bottomed basin approximately 1.75 km in length from west to east and 0.75 km wide at its maximum breadth.

Map of Lochgelly, UK

Land around the loch is owned by Wemyss 1952 Trustees.

The loch was surveyed on 11 May 1905 by Sir John Murray and later charted as part of The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.

References

Loch Gelly Wikipedia