Plasterfield
Human settlement in Scotland
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Plasterfield (Scottish Gaelic: Raon na Crèadha) is a hamlet in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis. Plasterfield is within the parish of Stornoway.[1]
Plasterfield
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Stornoway radar station, which helps controllers at Prestwick monitor transatlantic and other high-level air traffic, at the south-eastern corner of Plasterfield | |
  Plasterfield Location within the Outer Hebrides | |
| Language | Scottish Gaelic English |
| OS grid reference | NB440330 |
| Civil parish | |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | STORNOWAY |
| Postcode district | HS1 |
| Dialling code | 01851 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Plasterfield is a suburb of Stornoway and consists of two groups of houses, built after World War II. The ambulance station for the Isle of Lewis is also here[2] as well a small industrial estate (Mossend estate). In the 1970s a group of Barratt houses was built adjacent to Plasterfield; this area was originally called Bayview. Plasterfield is also the home of The Blackhouse bakery (formerly MacKinnon's).[3]
Angus Macleod, the former Scottish editor of The Times, was raised in Plasterfield.[4][5]
