Old photograph of a house in Ballallan on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Balallan, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ailein, Bail' Ailein, meaning Allan's Town, is a crofting township within the parish of Lochs. The township has the distinction of being the longest village , 4 miles measured from end to end, on Lewis, and also in northern Scotland. Straggled along the head of a long sea loch between Arivruach and Laxay, it developed due to a mixture of crofting along the loch shore and fishing. It sits at the head of Loch Erisort. Those on the loch side were each given direct access to the loch for their boats as well as access to the moorland behind for their sheep. They also attended to their croft, given relative shelter from the elements by the high ground to the west.
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