Balgown
Balgown is a hamlet in Highland Council, Scotland. Balgown is situated nearby to the hamlet Kilvaxter, as well as near the village Kilmuir.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet on Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Baile a‘ Ghobhainn” and “Balgowan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kilvaxter Iron-Age Farmstead & Souterrain and Monkstadt House, Skye.
Kilvaxter Iron-Age Farmstead & Souterrain
Archaeological site
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilvaxter Iron-Age Farmstead & Souterrain is an archaeological site.
Skye Museum of Island Life
Museum
Photo: HelgeRieder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Skye Museum of Island Life is a museum in Kilmuir, Skye, Scotland, which is dedicated to preserving a township of thatched cottages as they would have been on Skye at the end of the 18th century. Skye Museum of Island Life is situated 2 miles north of Balgown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilvaxter and Kilmuir.
Kilvaxter
Hamlet
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilvaxter is a crofting township located on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the council area of Highland.
Kilmuir
Village
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilmuir is a village on the west coast of the Trotternish peninsula in the north of the island of Skye, and a civil parish covering the north of the peninsula.
Balgown
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.63431° or 57° 38′ 4″ northLongitude
-6.3772° or 6° 22′ 38″ westElevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9C9MJJMF+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 12134417912OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13276071Wikidata ID
Q124544779
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Scottish Gaelic—“Balgown” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Baile a‘ Ghobhainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a‘ Ghobhainn”
- “Baile a‘ Ghobhainn”
- “Balgown”
- “Balgown - Baile a‘ Ghobhainn”
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