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Belfast
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live. If you live in Belfast, enter the first three digits of your
Belfast postcode i.e. BT1, then click on the 'search' button and
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Interesting facts about Belfast
and Northern Ireland. Belfast expanded very rapidly from
small market town to industrial city during the course of the
nineteenth century. Because of this it is less an agglomeration of
villages and towns which have expanded into each other than other
comparable cities, such as Manchester or Birmingham. The city
expanded to the natural barrier of the hills that surround it,
overwhelming other settlements. Consequently the arterial roads
along which this expansion took place (such as the Falls Road or the
Newtownards Road) are more significant in defining the districts of
the city than nucleated settlements. Including the City Centre, the
city can be divided into five areas with North Belfast, East
Belfast, South Belfast, and West Belfast. Each of these is a
parliamentary constituency. Belfast remains segregated by walls,
commonly known as “peace lines”, erected by the British Army after
August 1969, which still divide fourteen neighbourhoods in the
inner-city. In June 2007, a UK£16 million programme was announced
which will transform and redevelop streets and public spaces in the
city centre. Major arterial roads (quality bus corridors) into the
city include the Antrim Road, Shore Road, Holywood Road, Newtownards
Road, Castlereagh Road, Cregagh Road, Ormeau Road, Malone Road,
Lisburn Road, Falls Road, Springfield Road, Shankill Road, and
Crumlin Road. Belfast City Centre is divided by two postcodes, BT1
for the area lying north of the City Hall, and BT2 for the area to
its south. The industrial estate and docklands share BT3. The rest
of the Greater Belfast postcodes are set out in a clockwise system.
Although BT stands for Belfast, it is used across the whole of
Northern Ireland.
View of Belfast from the Big Wheel at the City HallSince 2001,
boosted by increasing numbers of tourists, the city council has
developed a number of cultural quarters. The Cathedral Quarter takes
its name from St. Anne’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland) and has taken
on the mantle of the city's key cultural locality. It hosts a yearly
visual and performing arts festival.
View of Belfast City Hall from the Big WheelIn March 2008, Victoria
Square, Belfast, a £400m shopping complex opened in the centre of
Belfast, consisting of shops, restaurants, a cinema (opening in June
2008) and the largest House of Fraser in the UK and Ireland,
increasing the shopping area of Belfast by up to a third.
Custom House Square is one of the city's main outdoor venues for
free concerts and street entertainment. The Gaeltacht Quarter is an
area around the Falls Road in West Belfast which promotes and
encourages the use of the Irish language.[37] The Queen's Quarter in
South Belfast is named after Queen's University. The area has a
large student population and hosts the annual Belfast Festival at
Queen’s each autumn. It is home to Botanic Gardens and the Ulster
Museum, closed for major redevelopment until 2009.[38] The Golden
Mile is the name given to the mile between Belfast City Hall and
Queen's University. Taking in Gt. Victoria St, Shaftesbury Square
and Bradbury Place, it contains some of the best bars and
restaurants in the city.[39] Since the Good Friday Agreement in
1998, the nearby Lisburn Road has developed into the city's most
exclusive shopping strip.[40][41] Finally, The Titanic Quarter
covers 0.75 km² of reclaimed land adjacent to Belfast harbour,
formerly known as Queen's Island. Named after the Titanic, which was
built here in 1912, work has begun which promises to transform some
former shipyard land into "one of the largest waterfront
developments in Europe". Plans also include apartments, a riverside
entertainment district, and a major Titanic-themed museum.
Dating Belfast is
also able to offer local dating in
the counties of
Cavan,
Donegal,
Monaghan,
Antrim,
Armagh,
Down,
Fermanagh,
Londonderry,
Tyrone and in the cities of
Armagh,
Derry,
Lisburn and
Newry.
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