Balloch

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Balloch

Total population

6,090

Coordinates56.00°, -4.58°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Balloch is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, at the foot of Loch Lomond.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

A. J. Cronin

Scottish novelist (1896–1981)

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

Steve McCabe

British politician (born 1955)

Robert Craufurd

Scottish soldier (1764-1812)

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Jack Galbraith

Scottish footballer

James Thomson

Scottish writer (1834-1882)

Hugo Reid

trader in Mexico from Scotland

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Ross McCall

British actor

Harry McNish

Scottish carpenter and participant in Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition

Alex Jackson

footballer born in 1905

John Campbell

Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland as a forward, 1870 (1870–1906)

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Robert Rental

British musician

Andrew Hannah

Scottish footballer (1864-1940)

Reginald Wingate

British general, administrator and diplomat (1861–1953)

James Kelly

British football player, born 1865 (1865–1932)

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Jimmy McDougall

Scottish footballer (1904-1984)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Scotland

• North Blochairn
  12.2 mi away
• Invertrossachs
  17.7 mi away
• Netherplace
  18.1 mi away
• Fairlie
  20.3 mi away
• Ardkinglas
  22.2 mi away
• Millhall
  22.5 mi away
• Braeface
  24.4 mi away
• Castlecary
  24.5 mi away
• Allandale
  25.4 mi away · pop. 289
• Caldercruix
  27.9 mi away
• Crookedholm
  27.9 mi away
• Ballimore
  29 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Balloch

Robert Fergusson

Alexander Balloch Grosart · 1898

Balloch and around

James Barr · 2010

Songs of the day and night

Alexander Balloch Grosart · 1890

Representative Nonconformists: With the Message of Their Life-work for To-day

Alexander Balloch Grosart · 1879

The works of Robert Fergusson

Fergusson, Robert · 1807

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