Garve, a loch on the mutual border of Contin and Fodderty parishes, Ross-shire, ¾ mile SE of Garve station on the Dingwall and Skye railway, this station being 11¾ miles W by N of Dingwall, and having a post and railway telegraph office. Here also there is a good inn. Lying 220 feet above sea-level, the loch has an utmost length and breadth of 1½ and ½ mile, has finely wooded shores, is traversed by the Blackwater, and contains abundance of trout, running 2 or 3 to the lb.Ord. Sur., sh. 83, 1881.
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