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Chapelton Loch

lake or loch · South Ayrshire

Old EnglishAI-generated

This name refers to a loch associated with a chapel. 'Chapel' is from Old English 'capel' (from Latin 'capella'), and 'loch' is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or sea inlet, adopted into Scots.

Word origins

Chapel
Old Englishchapel(from capel "chapel", capella "chapel")
Loch
Gaeliclake, sea inlet(from loch "lake, sea inlet")