Balfron (Scottish Gaelic: Both Fron) is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland.

Rob Roy's sons abducted young widow-heiress Jean Key from nearby Edinbellie and forced her to marry Robin Oig MacGregor who was hanged for the crime.

In 1789, when Robert Dunmore built Ballindalloch Cotton Works, he expanded the settlement from a hamlet of around 50 people to a bustling Industrial Revolution planned village with a population of almost 1,000 within a year.

[2] As the cotton boom began to fail, the arrival of the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway transformed Balfron into a popular holiday resort.

The plethora of no longer required ex-army vehicles after World War I began the village's connection with buses which still survives today.

[2] Balfron Tower, a high-rise residential building in London designed by Ernő Goldfinger, was named after the village in 1967.

There had been a 9-hole course at the top of the village for many years until, in 1939, Balfron Golf Club was dissolved and the land given up for agricultural use during the 2nd World War.

Balfron Church is situated in the settlement and shares a minister with the neighbouring parish of Fintry.

[3] Many youth groups work in the village including Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, scouts and guides.