[3] Banton Loch is a freshwater lake on the east side of Kilsyth in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, some 21 kilometres (13 mi) north-east of Glasgow.

The loch is impounded by earthwork dams, situated 86 metres (282 ft) above sea level in the flooded valley of the Banton Burn, a tributary of the River Kelvin.

The loch's outflow, situated centrally on its south shoreline, feeds the Forth and Clyde canal via channels constructed for the purpose, as well as providing a source of the River Kelvin.

[5] The battlefield of the 15 August 1645 Battle of Kilsyth between Scottish Royalists and Covenanters is thought to be in the vicinity of the loch, although its exact position remains a subject of debate.

Townhead Reservoir is described, in an 1891 history of the Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow - a burgh guild or cartel owning the exclusive right to sell bread in Glasgow, and operator of a number of watermills on the River Kelvin - as a water-rights asset of the Incorporation acting as an impounding dam capable of providing flow on the Kelvin when low water levels would otherwise jeopardise milling operations.