Balado is a park and former airfield within the Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of 32 council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling, Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas. Perth is the administrative centre...

 council area of Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It is now the venue of the annual T in the Park

T in the Park

T in the Park is a major British music festival that has been held annually since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents. It was originally held at Strathclyde Park, Lanarkshire but since 1997 has been held at a disused airfield in Balado, Kinross-shire...

music festival.

Poultry sheds of Balado Poultry Farm now occupy the old concrete runways of the airfield. On the southern perimeter of the site is the Balado Bridge NATO Satellite Ground Station, which closed in 2006.
There are around 4,000-5,000 people living nearby in Kinross and Milnathort.

External links

• Kinross Community Council
• Balado on ScotGaz The gazeteer for Scotland
• Balado on BBC Scotland Website An article about the closure of the satellite ground station.
• Aerial photo of Balado Poultry Farm A view of the site from the Picture Research Solutions website.
• Balado on Windows Live Local Requires Windows Internet Explorer software; may or may not work in other browsers.
• Balado on Placeopedia See nearby places with Wikipedia articles