See soorce fer Loch Ken

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| name = Loch Ken
| image = File:Anglers at Loch Ken (geograph 6016801).jpg
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| location = [[Dumfries an Gallowa]]
| coords = {{coord|55.009|N|4.056|W|region:GB_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}}
| type = freshwater [[loch]], [[reservoir]]
| inflow = [[Watter o Ken]], [[River Dee, Dumfries an Gallowa|River Dee]]
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| basin_countries = Scotland
| length = {{convert|9|mi|abbr=on}}
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| cities = [[Glenlochar]], [[Clachanpluck]] (Lauriston), [[Mossdale]], [[Crossmickle]], [[Parton, Dumfries an Gallowa|Parton]]
| extra = {{Designation list
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 | designation1 = Ramsar
 | designation1_offname = Loch Ken & River Dee Marshes
 | designation1_date = 31 August 1992
 | designation1_number = 568<ref>{{Cite web|title=Loch Ken & River Dee Marshes|website=[[Ramsar Convention|Ramsar]] Sites Information Service|url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/568|accessdate=25 April 2018}}</ref>}}
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'''Loch Ken''' is 9-mile lang freshwatter [[loch]] in the historical coonty o [[Kirkcoubrieshire]] in [[Dumfries an Gallowa]], [[Scotland]]. It lies in [[The Glenkens]], whaur it is fed fae the north bi the [[Watter o Ken]] an fae the wast bi the [[River Dee, Dumfries an Gallowa|River Dee]]. It conteenas as the Dee sooth fae [[Glenlochar]], whaur the watter is haudit back bi the Glenlochar Barrage. Pairt o the [[Galloway hydroelectric power scheme]], the barrage raads the river's flow.

Veelages aroond Loch Ken include Glenlochar til the sooth, Clachanpluck (Laurieston) an Mossdale on the wast side o the loch, [[Crossmickle]] an [[Parton, Dumfries an Gallowa|Parton]] on the east. The toun o [[New Gallowa]] lies ae mile til the north. The pairish kirk o [[Balmaghie]] is bi the loch ower fae Crossmickle.
[[File:Kenmure_Castle,_New_Galloway,_Kirkcudbrightshire,_Scotland.jpg|thumb|Kenmure Castle]]
At the northren end o the loch staunds [[Kenmure Castle]]. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/64213/kenmure-castle?display=collection&GROUPCATEGORY=5 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-09-19 |archive-date=2019-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702131210/https://canmore.org.uk/site/64213/kenmure-castle?display=collection&GROUPCATEGORY=5 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

Loch Ken is uised recreationally for [[watter skiin]], fishin, an sailin, wi Glenlaggan Lodges an Loch Ken Marina caterin tae veesitors.

A railwey viaduct, ance pairt o the [[Portpatrick Railway]], crosses the loch at Boat o Rhone, bit it is noo no uised an is no in a sauf condeetion.

Loch Ken an the River Dee Merses wis allocatit as a [[Ramsar site]] on 21 August 1992.

[[The Loch Ken Pike|John Murray]] wis gamekeeper til the Gordons at Kenmure Castle an is remembert for haen catcht in the loch the lairgest [[ged]] on record, the heid o it restit on his shouder, wi the tail trailin on the grun. It wee'd 72 pund, an it meisurt aboot 7 fit in lenth. The skelet o the heid wis for mony years preserved on shaw in the billiard room at Kenmure whaur it wis studied an meisurt bi [[Charles Tate Regan]], a Breetish ichthyologist, o the Natural History Museum in [[Lunnon]].  Murray dee'd in 1777 and is buirit at the Kells Kirkyaird; on his toumstane is cairved in relief a gun, a pouder pootch, a fishin-rod, a dug an a paitrick. <ref>https://www.amff.org/john-murrays-pike/</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Loch Ken}}
*[http://www.lochkenholidaypark.co.uk/ The Loch Ken Holiday Pairk]
*[http://www.lochken.co.uk/ The Galloway Sailing Centre]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012063958/http://www.skilochken.co.uk/ Loch Ken Water Ski School]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120805212608/http://www.lochkenboattrips.com/ Loch Ken Boat Trips]

[[Category:Lochs o Dumfries an Gallowa]]