Loch Achilty is a large picturesque lowland freshwater
loch
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set within a sloping birch and oakwood forest, and located near to
Contin
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Scottish Highlands
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Scotland
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Loch Achilty is notable for having no outflow. It has been assumed that it is discharging its surplus water via tunnel into the River Rosay (now known as the Black Water) that eventually flows into the larger
River Conon
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Geography
Loch Achilty is a small but deep loch in Torrachilty wood, three miles west of
Strathpeffer, and contains
char
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. In outline it is somewhat elliptical, with the long axis trending north-east and south-west. The floor of Loch Achilty is irregular. The contour follows approximately the outline of the loch, in many places approaching very close to the shore, but the deeper contours are all sinuous in character, and there are two small basins exceeding in depth, the larger and deeper towards the western shore, and the smaller, based on a sounding of , near the centre of the loch.
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