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Balallan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ailein, Bail' Ailein), meaning "Allan's Town", is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Balallan is within the parish of . The township has the distinction of being the longest village (4 miles or 6 kilometres from end to end) in Lewis, and also in northern Scotland. Straggled along the head of a long sea loch between and , it developed due to a mixture of crofting along the loch shore and fishing. It sits at the head of Loch Erisort. The village formerly had a police house, and currently houses a post office.

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  • Balallan (en)
  • Balallan (eu)
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  • Balallan, Eskoziako gaeleraz: Baile Ailein, Eskoziako Lewis uhartean dagoen udalerri bat da, Kanpoko Hebridetan. (eu)
  • Balallan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ailein, Bail' Ailein), meaning "Allan's Town", is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Balallan is within the parish of . The township has the distinction of being the longest village (4 miles or 6 kilometres from end to end) in Lewis, and also in northern Scotland. Straggled along the head of a long sea loch between and , it developed due to a mixture of crofting along the loch shore and fishing. It sits at the head of Loch Erisort. The village formerly had a police house, and currently houses a post office. (en)
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  • Baile Ailein (en)
  • Balallan (en)
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  • Balallan Post Office (en)
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  • Balallan Post Office - geograph.org.uk - 137426.jpg (en)
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  • Balallan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ailein, Bail' Ailein), meaning "Allan's Town", is a crofting township on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Balallan is within the parish of . The township has the distinction of being the longest village (4 miles or 6 kilometres from end to end) in Lewis, and also in northern Scotland. Straggled along the head of a long sea loch between and , it developed due to a mixture of crofting along the loch shore and fishing. It sits at the head of Loch Erisort. Those on the loch side were each given direct access to the loch for their boats as well as access to the moorland behind for their sheep. They also attended to their croft, given relative shelter from the elements by the high ground to the west. The village formerly had a police house, and currently houses a post office. Just south of the village there is a cairn that stands as a memorial to the Deer Park Raiders. It is one of three Land Struggle cairns to have been commissioned on the Isle of Lewis. (en)
  • Balallan, Eskoziako gaeleraz: Baile Ailein, Eskoziako Lewis uhartean dagoen udalerri bat da, Kanpoko Hebridetan. (eu)
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  • Baile Ailein (en)
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