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[[File:Ballig - geograph.org.uk - 25466.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[A3 road (Isle of Man)|A3]] [[Castletown, Isle of Man|Castletown]] to [[Ramsey, Isle of Man|Ramsey]] Road at Ballig Bridge looking North along the TT course]]

'''Ballig''' ({{langx|gv|farm of the hollow}}, also known as Ballig Bridge)<ref>''Place Names of the Isle of Man'' by [[John Kneen]] MA pp382 (1970) Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh The Scolar Press</ref>  is a small hamlet of a few houses situated between the 8th and 9th Milestone road-side markers on the [[Snaefell Mountain Course]] between [[Ballacraine]] and [[Glen Helen, Isle of Man|Glen Helen]].  It is the site of a former notorious hump-back bridge used for the [[Isle of Man TT]] Races on the primary [[A3 road (Isle of Man)|A3]] [[Castletown, Isle of Man|Castletown]] to [[Ramsey, Isle of Man|Ramsey]] and the road junction with the [[A20 road (Isle of Man)|A20]] Poortown Road in the parish of [[German (parish)|German]] in the [[Isle of Man]].

The former Ballig Bridge was part of the [[Highland Course]] and [[Four Inch Course]] used for the [[Gordon Bennett Trial]] and [[RAC Tourist Trophy|Tourist Trophy]] automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1922. Also, Ballig Bridge was part of the [[St John's Short Course]] used between 1907 and 1910 and part of the Snaefell Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT Races and 1923 for the [[Manx Grand Prix]].

The area is dominated by the farmland, including the Beary Mountain, St John's village, and Tynwald Mills.  A number of changes occurred to the Mountain Course during the 1930s with extensive road widening on the A18 Mountain Road and the removal of the hump-back bridge and road straightening<ref>''Isle of Man Weekly Times'' dated 25 May 1935</ref>  at Ballig for the 1935 racing season and the road work is completed for the Manx Grand Prix in September 1935.  The George Formby film [[No Limit (1936 film)]] used the [[1935 Isle of Man TT]] races as a backdrop for filming including Ballig Bridge.

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