Cove, Argyll and Bute

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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 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Several of the large houses have either been converted or have gone. Survivors include over a dozen houses by Alexander "Greek" Thomson: Knockderry, which is now a hotel, Craigrownie Castle, still a private residence, 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.