Coylet

Coylet
Coylet Inn
Scotland
Scotland
Coylet
Location within Argyll and Bute
OS grid referenceNS 14304 88632
Council area
  • Argyll and Bute
Lieutenancy area
  • Argyll and Bute
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNOON, ARGYLL
Postcode districtPA23
Dialling code01369
UK Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament
  • Argyll and Bute
List of places
UK
Scotland
56°03′16″N 4°59′01″W / 56.054408°N 4.9836236°W / 56.054408; -4.9836236

Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.[1]

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]

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ "Benmore Forest and Loch Eck - D-block GB-212000-687000". BBC Domesday Reloaded. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  2. ^ James Brown Johnston (1903). "Place-names of Scotland. Coylet Inn (L. Eck)". Nature. 70 (1813) (2nd ed.): 85. Bibcode:1904Natur..70..292.. doi:10.1038/070292a0. OCLC 2204716.
  3. ^ "A ghostly legend materialises" - The Herald, 15 August 1994
  4. ^ "The Blue Boy" – via www.imdb.com.
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