Lochgilphead, Argyll & Bute - Stag Hotel, art postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Stag Hotel, Lochgilphead [Argyll & Bute] from a painting by JW Thomson, 1964
• Publisher: probably the hotel
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Lochgilphead (/lɒxˈɡɪlphɛd/; Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Loch Gilb [kʲʰan̪ˠ l̪ˠɔx ˈkʲilip]) is a town and former burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom, with a population of around 2,300 people.[2] It is the administrative centre of Argyll and Bute. The village lies at the end of Loch Gilp (a branch of Loch Fyne) and lies on the banks of the Crinan Canal. Lochgilphead sits on the A83, with Ardrishaig 2 miles (3 km) to the south and Inveraray 24 miles (39 km) to the north-east; Oban lies 37 miles (60 km) north on the A816.

The council is based at Kilmory Castle,[3] around which is located a woodland park and an Iron Age fort.[citation needed] Forestry and Land Scotland also have an office there.

Lochgilphead's facilities include a swimming pool, sports centre, fishing tackle shop, three banks, Co-op Food supermarket, two petrol stations, three homewear and hardware shops, a Renault dealership, a community hospital run by the local GPs (with an A&E department and a psychiatric hospital), a 9-hole golf course, bowling club, a hydrotherapy pool, a regional landfill site at Dunchologan and Lochgilphead High School.

The town is home to shinty team Kilmory Camanachd and football team, Lochgilphead Red Star.