Loch Ken

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

LakeBodyOfWater lake Q7346603

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Summary

Loch Ken is a lake^[1].

Key Facts

Located in the administrative territorial entity: Dumfries and Galloway^[2]
Country: United Kingdom^[3]
Instance of: reservoir^[4]
Inflows: Water of Ken^[5], Shirmers Burn^[6], Shirmers Burn^[7], Maukinhowe Burn^[8], Clone Burn^[9], Arvie Burn^[10]
Outflows: River Dee^[11]
Basin country: Scotland^[12]
Coordinate location: 55.009, -4.056^[13]
Impounded by: Glenlochar Barrage^[14]
Historic county: Kirkcudbrightshire^[15]

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Located in time zoneP421

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Quick Facts

Instance of lake, reservoir

Country United Kingdom

Located in Dumfries and Galloway

Coordinate location 🗺️ 55.009°, -4.056°

Properties

Basin country Scotland

Coordinates 🗺️ 55.009°, -4.056°

Historic county Kirkcudbrightshire

Impounded by Glenlochar Barrage

Inflows Water of Ken, Shirmers Burn, Shirmers Burn, Maukinhowe Burn, Clone Burn, Arvie Burn

Located in the administrative territorial entity Dumfries and Galloway

Outflows River Dee

Identifiers (11)

Image (Wikimedia Commons) Loch Ken.jpg ↗

Canmore id 276465

Freebase id /m/0261p6m

Gazetteer for scotland place id features/featurefirst2123

Gb1900 id 5879016c2c66dc67e202f3a0

Geonames id 2645829

Gns unique feature id -2599797

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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🔗 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

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Loch Ken — country (P17): United Kingdom. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Loch Ken — instance of (P31): reservoir. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Loch Ken — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Dumfries and Galloway. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Water of Ken. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Shirmers Burn. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Shirmers Burn. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Maukinhowe Burn. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Clone Burn. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Loch Ken — inflows (P200): Arvie Burn. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Loch Ken — outflows (P201): River Dee. maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Loch Ken — basin country (P205): Scotland. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Loch Ken — coordinate location (P625): {'lat': 55.009, 'lon': -4.056}. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Loch Ken — impounded by (P4792): Glenlochar Barrage. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Loch Ken — historic county (P7959): Kirkcudbrightshire. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Loch Ken is an instance of lake (Q23397) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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@misc{4ortxyz_loch-ken_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Loch Ken}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/loch-ken}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-01}}

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