Where is The Comber Greenway?

The Comber Greenway is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6010°, -5.8967°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

The Comber Greenway

The Comber Greenway in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

National Cycle Network sign (99), Belfast (3) - geograph.org.uk - 2247090 — Albert Bridge — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

The Comber Greenway is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

The Comber Greenway is a 7-mile (11 km) traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network that runs along the old Belfast-Comber railway line. The cycle path starts on Dee Street in east Belfast and finishes at Comber in County Down. As well as a cycling path, it is also popular with people on foot. The most recent addition to the route was in November 2008 when the final link between Old Dundonald Road/Comber Rd junction and Comber was opened. This added 1.6 miles (2.6 km) to the route. One section runs through a SLNCI-designated Wetland ecosystem.

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Background

History

The current route of the Greenway was originally the main line of the Belfast and County Down Railway. The railway was in use from 1850s until 1950 when the Ulster Transport Authority closed it. Through the 1950s the track was lifted in phases and infrastructure, including bridges, removed. The remains of Neill's Hill station survive near Sandown Road behind Clara Park and Sandhill Gardens. In 1964 it was proposed that a section of what is now the Greenway be utilised for the M7 Motorway project. This motorway was not built. The Belfast Urban Area Plan 2001 included a proposal for a smaller-scale road along the same route, but that was never built either. By late in the century the Greenway…

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