Newtownbreda
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{{Infobox settlement
|name = Newtownbreda
|image_skyline = The Church Road, Newtownbreda, Belfast (April 2017) - geograph.org.uk - 5367160.jpg
|image_caption = Church Road by Knockbreda Cemetery
|type = Village
|pushpin_map = Northern Ireland
|coordinates = {{Coord|54.560|-5.913|display=ti|region:GB_scale:20000}}
}}
Newtownbreda (Irish: Baile Nua na Bréadaí){{Cite web |title=Baile Nua na Bréadaí/Newtownbreda |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/130141 |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=logainm.ie |language=en}} is a residential suburban village of south Belfast and within County Down in Northern Ireland, clustered around a small and now largely invisible 18th century village. The A55 Belfast Outer Ring road and A24 road pass through the area.
History
At one time, Newtownbreda was a small village in south Belfast. However, it is now part of the Greater Belfast conurbation and the name is a descriptor used loosely to describe the very broad area including Belvoir, Four Winds and Knockbreda. It is a largely residential area of private housing.
Notable locations
Newtownbreda has several churches including the 18th century Church of Ireland Parish Church, which uses the name of the civil parish Knockbreda and which owes its existence to Arthur Hill from nearby Belvoir Demesne. The church consecrated by Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor, on Sunday 7 August 1737.
The Forestside Shopping Centre was developed by Sainsbury's between 1996 and 1998.{{cite news | first = Robin | last = Morton | title = Forestside: a new era | work = Belfast Telegraph | publisher = Belfast Telegraph Newspapers Ltd. | date = 15 September 1998 }} Belvoir Park Golf Club and Belvoir Forest Park are also located nearby. A {{convert|48,000|sqft|m2}} Tesco store was built on a brownfield site, (formerly a warehouse for the Stewarts Supermarket chain) and opened in 2007.{{cite news |last=Manley |first=John |date=27 January 2007 |title=Opening of 24-hour Tesco store will 'exacerbate traffic problems' |work=Irish News |location=Belfast }}{{cite news |last=Tilson |first=Nigel |date=29 January 2007 |title=Ulster Tesco job total hits 9,000 with new store |work=Business Telegraph |location=Belfast}}
1992 NIFSL bombing
{{main|Forensic Science Laboratory bombing}}
On 23 September 1992 a Provisional IRA bomb destroyed the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory (NIFSL) on the Newtownbreda Road.{{cite news |last=Cowley |first=Martin |date=24 September 1992 |title=Bombing of forensic lab likely to disrupt courts |newspaper=The Irish Times |publisher=The Irish Times }} The IRA had given a warning, and British Army bomb disposal experts were investigating an abandoned van when the explosion occurred. No people were killed or seriously injured, but 42 houses were totally destroyed. Over one thousand homes in a radius of {{convert|1.5|miles}} were damaged.{{cite web |last1=John D.|first1=Taylor |authorlink=John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney |title=Bomb Damage (Newtownbreda) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1993/feb/01/bomb-damage-newtownbreda#S6CV0218P0_19930201_HOC_587 |publisher=UK Government |accessdate=22 May 2015 |work =Hansard, HC Deb, 01 February 1993, Vol. 218, cc117-24 |date=1 February 1993 |quote=}}{{cite news |title=IRA blast damages over 1,000 homes |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ira-blast-damages-over-1000-homes-1553260.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ira-blast-damages-over-1000-homes-1553260.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |accessdate=22 May 2015 |work=The Independent |date=24 September 1992}}
References
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{{County Down}}
Category:Wards of Northern Ireland
Category:Civil parish of Knockbreda
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