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Balmaclellan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Mac-a-ghille-dhiolan, meaning town of the MacLellans) is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland.
Balmaclellan is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, the larger and more prosperous New Galloway lies below the Rhinns of Kells .
Balmaclellan is a small village but hosts some of the best views in all the Glenkens. Get up high to the viewing point for some extraordinary views of the Rhins of Kells. There’s also a village shop and the Smiddy, a recently converted community facility that’s well worth a nosy around.
Welcome to the Balmaclellan google satellite map! This place is situated in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, its geographical coordinates are 55° 5' 0" North, 4° 7' 0" West and its original name (with diacritics) is Balmaclellan. See Balmaclellan photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs ...
Balmaclellan is one of four parishes in the northern district of the county. It contains over 23,000 acres, of which about 4,000 are cultivated. It includes areas of water, extensive plains of moss and about 300 acres of tree plantation, but most of the land is used for sheep or cattle pasture.
Balmaclellan is first recorded as a parish in 1453. War and plague in the later 14th century may have led to the deliberate introduction of a ‘colony’ to replenish depleted populations, either by the Gordons or the Earls of Douglas, or both, as superiors of the lands of Balmaclellan.
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Balmaclellan lies six miles west of the Dumfries border, and was historically in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire. Balmaclellan falls within the unitary authority of Dumfries and Galloway. It is in the DG7 postcode district. The post town for Balmaclellan is Castle Douglas.
