Cove, Argyll and Bute

For other meanings see Cove (disambiguation).

Cove and the Rosneath peninsula seen from Blairmore, across Loch Long in Cowal

Cove is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

It is on the south-west of the Rosneath peninsula, on the east shore of Loch Long.

Before the local government reorganisation in Scotland in 1975 it formed part of the small Joint Burgh of Cove and Kilcreggan, in the County of Dumbarton.

In common with many villages in the area, it was home to wealthy Glasgow merchants and shipowners in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several of the large houses have either been converted or have gone. Survivors include over a dozen houses by Alexander "Greek" Thomson: Craigrownie Castle, Glen Eden, Craig Ailey, Ferndean and Seymour Lodge, all dating from the 1850s. Of those not by Thomson, Hartfield was the summer residence of Lord Inverclyde became a YMCA hostel before its dereliction and demolition in the 1960s.

External links

• Craig Ailey Villa, Cove, Firth of Clyde
• The Gareloch and Rosneath Peninsula