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Antrim Road, BELFAST, BT15 5GE

The elaborate, but not so ornate, gates at the Antrim Road end of Fortwilliam Park.

The two pillars on the northern side of Fortwilliam Park (Antrim Road end).

Detail from the pillar on the left in Image Part of the former gate lodge is on the right.

Detail from the pillar on the left in Image

The Antrim Road is a major arterial route and area of housing and commerce that runs from inner city north Belfast to Dunadry. It forms part of the A6 road, a traffic route which links Belfast to Derry. The hill in the background is Cave Hill (sometimes written as Cavehill), a basaltic hill which overlooks the city of Belfast. The hill is also referred to locally as Napoleon's Nose, as when seen in silhouette the summit is said to resemble a gigantic profile of the emperor Napoleon staring upwards (http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/napoleon-nose-a-thing-or-two-about-cave-hill-28506267.html Belfast Telegraph). It is also sometimes said that Cave Hill was inspiration for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Swift imagined that the Cave Hill resembled the shape of a sleeping giant safeguarding the city.

Flush bracket located on the front of Fortwilliam Presbyterian Church on the Antrim Road in Belfast. The bracket is easily located on the right hand side of a wall just in front of the main church building. The number on the bracket is OSBM 3263. The mark is 41.17 metres above MSL. A flush bracket is a type of bench mark set onto the face of a building. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=11037856 for many other examples I have found.

The Antrim Road is a major arterial route and area of housing and commerce that runs from inner city north Belfast to Dunadry. It forms part of the A6 road, a traffic route which links Belfast to Derry.

The Cavehill Road is a residential road which runs from the Antrim Road to the Ballysillan Road. This view is towards the Cavehill.

A bridge, just about wide enough for a car, across the Milewater Image on the Old Westland Road. There is a separate pedestrian bridge just out of picture of the right. Name unknown but the Roads Service seems to refer to it as “Bridge 20151”.

Not named on the 1:12,000 map but this seems to be the Milewater – a stream which rises on the side of the Cave Hill and flows through Carr’s Glen. It continues, partly underground, to the Waterworks Image before encountering saltwater at Belfast harbour. This view is upstream from this bridge Image on the Old Westland Road.