Balloch () is an area of

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; ) is a large town in the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, most-populous locality in Scotl ...

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, located north of the

M80 motorway The M80 is a motorway in Scotland, Scotland's central belt, running between Glasgow and Stirling via Cumbernauld and Denny, Falkirk, Denny and linking the M8 motorway (Scotland), M8, M73 motorway, M73 and M9 motorway (Scotland), M9 motorways. F ...

and west of Cumbernauld Town Centre. It is also known as Eastfield or Balloch Eastfield. Nearby neighbourhoods include Smithstone, Cumbernauld, Smithstone, Westfield, Cumbernauld, Westfield and Craigmarloch.

History

Balloch's name comes from a farm on the Cumbernauld Estate of the Fleming family. It is a derivative of Scottish Gaelic ''bealach'', meaning a mountain pass, pass among hills or mountains. The area it now occupies used to be covered by Balloch Farm on the west side (located at the site of the Forge Community Centre at Ben Lawers Drive) and Eastfield Holdings on the east side (some of the buildings of which still exist). Balloch is a mainly residential area of privately owned homes, although a number of council-owned houses were built when the area was first established in the 1970s, which are also now largely privately owned – this neighbourhood is commonly referred to locally as Eastfield while the private housing, containing a large number of detached bungalows and villas, is known as Balloch, even though the former council estate is near the old farm and the private housing is closer to Eastfield Cemetery. Balloch was developed to accommodate growing numbers of people who wished to reside in a commuter town such as Cumbernauld with easy access to Glasgow – in addition to the motorway, Croy railway station is around to the north. The National Cycle Route 75, which runs between Edinburgh and Glasgow, passes by Balloch.

Sport

Football

Balloch shares a youth football team with Eastfield called ''Balloch Eastfield'', which runs teams at most age groups. Balloch Eastfield F.C. also run various fundraisers through the year, which allows them to make charitable contributions on a regular basis. Balloch Eastfield FC was founded in 1986, and is in a strong position to continue for a good number of years. The local amateur team Eastfield AFC was founded in 2002; they reached the final of the Scottish Amateur Cup in 2019.Eastfield aiming for Hampden glory in Scottish Amateur Cup Final
Cumbernauld News, 22 May 2019 Players have included the former captain of Botswana national football team, BotswanaCity Senne hits the heights of Cumbernauld
Deadline Press, via Fore! Four Two, March 2008 and the brothers Tyler and Dale Fulton, whose father Steve Fulton, Steve is involved in coaching the squad.

References

External links

Balloch Eastfield Community Council
Areas of Cumbernauld {{NorthLanarkshire-geo-stub