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Caol
Sign in to saveCaol (Gaelic: An Caol) is a village near Fort William, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about north of Fort William town centre, on the shore of Loch Linnhe, and is within the parish of Kilmallie.
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- Locality
- Caol
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3,220
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Caol
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 3220
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Kilmallie Road, Caol - geograph.org.uk - 2145449.jpg
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- Caol
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
- postal code
- PH33 7
- native label
- Caol
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Caol (Gaelic: An Caol) is a village near Fort William, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about north of Fort William town centre, on the shore of Loch Linnhe, and is within the parish of Kilmallie.
The name "Caol" is from the Gaelic for "narrow", in this case referring to the narrow water between Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caol” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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