Loch is the Scottish Gaelic and Irish word for a lake or a sea inlet.
Loch may also refer to:
Places
edit- Loch, Victoria, a town in Australia
- Lochs, Outer Hebrides, a parish on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
- Lochans, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Loch Castle (Eichhofen), a rare example of a Bavarian cave castle
- Mount Loch, a mountain in Australia
- The Loch (Central Park) in Manhattan, New York, United States
- Loch Fyne (Greenland), a fjord in East Greenland
Fiction and folklore
edit- Loch Ness Monster or "Nessie", a supposed aquatic being in Scottish folklore, which reputedly inhabits Loch Ness
- The Loch (novel), a novel by Steve Alten
- The Loch (TV series), a British TV series
Other uses
edit- Loch (surname)
- Baron Loch, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Loch-class frigate, a class of ship built for the Royal Navy and her allies during World War II
See also
edit- Deloche (disambiguation)
- Loches, a commune in central France
- Loché, an associated commune of Mâcon, France
- Loche (disambiguation)
- List of lochs of Scotland
- Lochia, the vaginal discharge after giving birth