The Lovat Hotel is a hotel in Scottish Highlands, the United Kingdom.[1] Wikidata describes it as “hotel in Highland, Scotland, UK”. It opened in 1869. The building has 2 floors. It stands about 3.1 km from the centre of Scottish Highlands.[3]
Overview
The Lovat Hotel is a hotel in Fort Augustus, at the southern end of Loch Ness in Scotland, originally built in the 1860s. It stands on the site of Kilwhimen Barracks, one of only four Hanoverian forts built to pacify the Highlands after the Jacobite rising of 1715 & Jacobite rising of 1719. The west curtain wall of the old fort still stands in the hotel grounds and measures 34 metres long by 4 metres high.
From “The Lovat Hotel” on English Wikipedia, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.[2]
History and building
The hotel opened in 1869. The building has 2 floors. [1]
Location
Measured in a straight line, the hotel is 3.1 km from the centre of Scottish Highlands. The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Inverness Airport (INV), about 62 km from the centre of Scottish Highlands.[4]
It is one of 5 hotels in and around Scottish Highlands recorded in Wikidata, 3 of which have an article in Innpedia.[5] See Hotels in Scottish Highlands.
See also
References
- ^ The Lovat Hotel (Q13529038). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ The Lovat Hotel. Wikipedia. Text excerpted under CC BY-SA 4.0; revision of 2026-03-25.
- ^ Scottish Highlands (Q106652). Wikidata. CC0.
- ^ Airports. OurAirports. Public domain.
- ^ Hotels in Scottish Highlands. Wikidata. CC0.
Facts as stated in Wikidata, read in October 2026.