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Lisburn
Also known as Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Lisburn ( ; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with the arrival of French Huguenots in the 18th century, the town developed as a global centre of the linen industry.
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Lisburn is a city in Northern Ireland located southwest of Belfast on the River Lagan, originally established in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers. It became historically significant as a major global center of the linen industry, especially after French Huguenots arrived in the 18th century and contributed to the town's development.
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Place details
- Locality
- Belfast
- Region
- Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 77,506
Travel guide
Understand
thumb | 300px | Louis Crommelin built up the linen industry throughout Ireland Linen is a textile produced from flax. It was produced at least 30,000 years ago from wild flax, and since 9000 years ago from a domesticated species Linum usitatissimum, which became cultivated throughout the Old World. Linen is strong and absorbent, pleasantly cool to the touch, and can be given a lustrous shine. So it's made into garments and bedding, though it's tricky to work and production is laborious. By the Middle Ages flax was grown and processed in Ireland but the leading centres were along the lower Rhine, in what is now Germany, Netherlands and Belgium. In 1685 the Edict of Fontainebleau revoked religious tolerance of French Protestants, which they had enjoyed since the 1598 Edict of Nantes. This led to the flight of the Protestants (called Huguenots) to Britain and Ireland. They included many skilled weavers and brought with them improved methods of production. Notable among them was Louis Crommelin (1652-1727), who settled in Lisburn and built up the linen industry throughout Ireland; he's buried in the cathedral graveyard. Production scaled up from rural craft through cottage industry to large mills, and Victorian Lisburn was "Linenopolis" much as Manchester was "Cottonopolis" and Dundee was "Juteopolis." (See also Banbridge for early mill automation, which paved the way for computers and robots.) In the 20th century trade withered with cheap foreign imports and the development of …
Get in
Lisburn is 9 miles southwest of Belfast, follow M1. There's a free Park & Ride at Sprucefield (M1 junction 8) mostly used by commuters into Belfast.
Trains run every 15 min from Belfast Grand Central to Lisburn (25 min), and continue to Lurgan and Portadown.
The Belfast-Dublin Enterprise trains don't stop here except once on Sunday, change at Portadown.
is north side of town centre. Both platforms are wheelchair accessible.
Hilden and Lambeg are two other halts at the north edge of town.
Ulsterbus 551 runs hourly from Belfast Grand Central to Lisburn (40 min), Moira, Lurgan and Craigavon.
Bus 538 also runs hourly from Belfast, and from Lisburn continues to Sprucefield, Hillsborough, Dromore, Banbridge, and occasionally to Newry.
Bus 23 runs from Belfast every two hours via Dunmurry.
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Article
42 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Early town
- The Huguenot and the linen trade
- Irish Volunteers, Croppies and Orangemen
- The Victorian Town
- Absentee proprietors
- Ulster Volunteers
- The Burnings and Partition
- From town to city
- Thiepval Barracks
- The Troubles
- Lisburn in the 21st century
- Administration
- Demography
- 2011 Census
- 2021 Census
- Schools and colleges
- List of Lisburn schools
- Churches
- Transport
- Rail
- Bus
- Road
- Inland waterways
- Cycling
- Shopping
- Townlands
- Climate
- Health care
- Sport
- Football
- Other sports
- People
- Academia and science
- Arts and media
- Business
- Government and politics
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Lisburn ( ; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with the arrival of French Huguenots in the 18th century, the town developed as a global centre of the linen industry.
In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, the predominantly unionist borough was granted city status alongside the largely nationalist town of Newry. With a population of 45,370 in the 2011 Census, Lisburn was the third-largest city in Northern Ireland. In the 2016 reform of local government in Northern Ireland Lisburn was joined with the greater part of Castlereagh to form the Lisburn City and Castlereagh District.
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