Coylet
Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute, in West 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 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".[2]
Popular culture
The 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.[3][4] Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.
Gallery
View from Coylet Inn Loch Eck Cowal
Looking ashore from Loch Eck
Aerial view of Coylet: caravan park
References
- "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- James Brown Johnston (1903). "Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Nature (2nd ed.). 70 (1813): 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.
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