Plasterfield

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]

Plasterfield Scottish Gaelic: Raon na Crèadha
Stornoway radar station, which helps controllers at Prestwick monitor transatlantic and other high-level air traffic, at the south-eastern corner of Plasterfield
Plasterfield Location within the Outer Hebrides
Language	Scottish Gaelic English
OS grid reference	NB440330
Civil parish	Stornoway
Council area	Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area	Western Isles
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	STORNOWAY
Postcode district	HS1
Dialling code	01851
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish Parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
List of places UK Scotland 58.212°N 6.358°W / 58.212; -6.358

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]