Balado

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Balado Park is a former airfield in Kinross-shire, Scotland that is now the site for the annual T in the Park 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.

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• 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.

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• Balado on Placeopedia See nearby places with Wikipedia articles