Coulport
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For the Royal Navy base, see HMNB Clyde
Coulport is a village on the east side of Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
It is 5 miles north-north-west of Cove on the Rosneath peninsula. It marks the end of the B833 shore road, although the village can also be reached by a high-quality but unclassified access road (primarily designed for naval traffic) directly from Garelochhead. The village looks across to the small settlement of Ardentinny on the west shore.
It was the original location of the giant conservatory known as the Kibble Palace (now in Glasgow's Botanic Garden). John Kibble was one of several wealthy Glasgow merchants who had large villas built at Coulport in the nineteenth century either as permanent residences or summer retreats. Several still survive, some now flatted, others in a dilapidated condition.
Since the 1960s Coulport has been most associated with the Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD Coulport) situated there.
