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Old Balkello
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56°31′55″N3°01′55″W / 56.53194°N 3.03194°W / 56.53194; -3.03194

Old Balkello is a village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north of Dundee on the Auchterhouse to Tealing road. [1]

Looking south from Balluderon Hill, over Balkellos, old and new, towards Dundee South from Balluderon Hill.jpg
Looking south from Balluderon Hill, over Balkellos, old and new, towards Dundee

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References

  1. "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN   0-319-22980-7