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Loch Ken

lake in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Dee
LakeBodyOfWater lake Q7346603

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
lake, reservoir[4]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Located in
Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinate location
🗺️ 55.009°, -4.056°[13]
Basin country
Scotland[12]
Coordinates
🗺️ 55.009°, -4.056°
Historic county
Kirkcudbrightshire[15]
Impounded by
Glenlochar Barrage[14]
Inflows
Water of Ken, Shirmers Burn, Shirmers Burn, Maukinhowe Burn, Clone Burn, Arvie Burn[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dumfries and Galloway[2]
Outflows
River Dee[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Loch Ken
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Loch Ken.jpg ↗
Canmore ID
276465
Freebase ID
/m/0261p6m
GB1900 ID
5879016c2c66dc67e202f3a0
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2599797
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
features/featurefirst2123
GeoNames ID
2645829
OpenStreetMap relation ID
13997671
Standing Waters Database ID
NX6715.2, NX6715.1, NX6715.3, NX6715
TOID
4000000074805604
UK Lakes Portal ID
28003
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 H/LK · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
lake, reservoir
Basin country 1
Scotland
Country 1
United Kingdom
Historic county 1
Kirkcudbrightshire
Inflows 1
Water of Ken
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dumfries and Galloway
Outflows 1
River Dee
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Water of Ken
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Summary

Loch Ken is a lake[1].

Related Entities

Scotland United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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