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]

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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
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Plasterfield
Location within the Outer Hebrides
LanguageScottish Gaelic
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OS grid referenceNB440330
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CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTORNOWAY
Postcode districtHS1
Dialling code01851
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58.212°N 6.358°W / 58.212; -6.358
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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]

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