Plasterfield

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Plasterfield
Gaelic: Raon na Crèadha
Ross-shire
Stornoway Radar Station - geograph.org.uk - 206245.jpg
Stornoway Airport radar station
Location
Grid reference: NB440330
Location: 58°12’43"N, 6°21’29"W
Data
Post town: Stornoway
Postcode: HS1
Dialling code: 01851
Local Government
Council: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Parliamentary
constituency:
Na h-Eileanan an Iar

Plasterfield is a hamlet on the island of Lewis in Ross-shire. It lies within the parish of Stornoway, to the east of Stornoway itself.[1]

Plasterfield effectively forms a suburb of Stornoway and consists of houses built after World War II. The ambulance station for the Isle of Lewis is also located at Plasterfield[2] as well a small industrial estate (Mossend estate).

Plasterfield is the home of MacKinnon's Bakery.[3]

Angus Macleod, the former Scottish editor of The Times, was raised in Plasterfield.[4][5]

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