Coylet is a hamlet on Loch Eck, Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute, in West Scotland.[1]
Coylet
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Coylet Inn | |
Coylet Location within Argyll and Bute | |
OS grid reference | NS 14304 88632 |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | DUNOON, ARGYLL |
Postcode district | PA23 |
Dialling code | 01369 |
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The hamlet is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. It developed around the Coylet Inn, a coaching inn on the A815 road that leads to Dunoon, the main town on the peninsula.
The name may be derived from Gaelic caol ait, "narrow place".[2]
The 1994 film The Blue Boy is centred around the story of a four-year-old boy drowning in Loch Eck and haunting the Coylet Inn. It was filmed on location at the inn.[3][4] Starring Emma Thompson and Adrian Dunbar, directed by Paul Murton.