Balado
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Balado, Kinross”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch Leven railway station and Burleigh Castle.
Loch Leven railway station
Historic site
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Leven railway station served the burgh of Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland from 1860 to 1921 on the Kinross-shire Railway. Loch Leven railway station is situated 1½ miles southeast of Balado.
Burleigh Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The remains of Burleigh Castle are located just outside the village of Milnathort, 1.5 miles north of Kinross, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, and now sits beside the A911 road, opposite a 19th-century steading, recently adapted into housing. Burleigh Castle is situated 2½ miles northeast of Balado.
Orwell Parish (Milnathort) War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orwell Parish (Milnathort) War Memorial is situated 2 miles northeast of Balado.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kinross and Milnathort.
Kinross
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
Kinross is a small town in Perth and Kinross, 13 miles south of Perth. With a population of 5650 in 2021, it stands on the shores of Loch Leven, with the scarp of the Lomond Hills looming to the east and a mysterious giant golf ball to the west.
Milnathort
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milnathort is a small town in the parish of Orwell in the county of Kinross-shire, Scotland and since 1996, the local council area of Perth and Kinross. Milnathort is situated 2 miles northeast of Balado.
Cleish
Village
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cleish is a rural hamlet off the B9097 between Crook of Devon and the M90 motorway, three miles south-west of Kinross in central Scotland. It lies in the historic county of Kinross-shire. Cleish is situated 3 miles south of Balado.
Balado
- Category: locality
- Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.20708° or 56° 12′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.46096° or 3° 27′ 40″ westElevation
423 feet (129 metres)Open location code
9C8R6G4Q+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29346650OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balado”. Photo: RobChafer, Public domain.