Loch Laidon or Loch Lydoch or Loch Luydan is a long thin freshwater

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, on a southwest to northeast orientation, with outlets on the southwest side, that form the loch into a walkingstick with two supports, and is located on Rannoch Moor on the boundary of both

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and

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in the Scottish West Highlands, within the

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council area of

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. The largest of the western arms is 1.5 miles in length. A new species or sub-species of brown trout was discovered in Loch Laidon in late 2018

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