Mochrum Loch | |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |
Coords: | 54.8423°N -4.6493°W |
Outflow: | Water of Malzie |
Basin Countries: | Scotland |
Length: | 1.5miles |
Width: | 0.33miles |
Area: | 92ha[1] |
Depth: | 7feet |
Max-Depth: | 13feet |
Volume: | 68000000ft3 |
Shore: | 10.2km (06.3miles) |
Elevation: | 75m (246feet) |
Islands: | 8 islets |
Mochrum Loch is a large, irregular shaped, shallow, freshwater loch in Dumfries and Galloway, in the Southern Uplands of south-west Scotland. It lies approximately 8miles west of the town of Wigtown.[2] The loch has several rocky islets.
The loch was surveyed[2] in 1903 by James Murray and later charted [3] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.