Where is Finnart Oil Terminal?

Finnart Oil Terminal is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.1150°, -4.8320°.

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Finnart Oil Terminal

Finnart Oil Terminal in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Finnart Oil Terminal is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Finnart Oil Terminal, also known as Finnart Ocean Terminal or Chap Point, is an oil depot on the eastern shore of Loch Long, Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Garelochhead on the A814 road to Arrochar. It has piers extending a short distance into the loch, providing a deep water berth for oil tankers up to 324,000 tonnes. Two pipelines connect the terminal across Scotland to the Grangemouth Refinery on the Firth of Forth on the east coast, and extensive oil storage tanks have been built into the hillside on both sides of the main road.

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History

The road from Gare Loch rises over high ground before descending steeply to Loch Long, and at the foot of the hill the last owner of the croft on the site built a stone into the roadside wall with the inscription "This road was made from the Castle Rosneath to Tenne Clauch in the year 1777 by his Grace John Duke of Argyll. Erected by John Fraser". The stone can still be seen in the wall, opposite the main jetty of the terminal. The terminal takes its name from Finnart House, a country house to the east of the A814, constructed about 1832 for the Glasgow shipbuilder John Macgregor. It was designed by William Burn, who also designed Arddarroch House on the other side of the road, built in…

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