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Cedar Grove, HOLYWOOD, BT18 9QB

A very steep sets of steps leading from the Old Holywood Road (behind me) down into Cedar Grove. This area, including the nearby Redburn Country Park http://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/706 is on the western side of the Holywood Hills where steepness is a local feature.

A new development, nearing completion, of semi-detached houses and apartments (foreground) on the Old Holywood Road, immediately inside the North Down Borough Council district (the boundary sign is at middle left). This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the development and sale. The view is from the Belfast side. Image shows the view from the Holywood side.

See Image A new development, nearing completion, of semi-detached houses (right – some of which are now occupied) and apartments. This photograph appears as a matter of geographical and historical record only. I have no connection with any of the parties involved in the development and sale. The view is from the Holywood side.

One of the old style of North Down Borough Council signs, at the boundary with Belfast, on the Old Holywood Road. It can also be seen, at middle left, in Image Under the proposed arrangements for the reorganisation of local government North Down and Ards councils will be merged. See also Image

See Image (March 2014). The current Belfast/North Down boundary sign, on the Old Holywood Road, on the inward side of Redburn Court Image After reorganisation of local government on 1 April 2015 the boundary will move a short distance towards Holywood. In the words of Belfast City Council “Around 160 households from Cedar Grove, Glendarragh Mews, Redburn Court and a small section of Old Holywood Road will make the move to Belfast”. Image shows the sign after the boundary change.

The Church of the Annunciation (CoI), on the Knocknagoney Road, was built, in a non-traditional, innovative style, in 1964 to serve the residents of the expanding suburb. Architect Desmond Hodges. The entrance is from the Knocknagoney Road. This is a rear view from Churchland Close, off the Old Holywood Road. See also Image

See Image The feature on the roof.

Looking down road near Redburn Country Park.

The entrance to a detached house which is not visible from the road. The “for sale” sign has an “agreed” patch. The agent described it as “Excellent red brick detached residence in need of refurbishment . . . . Possible site for replacement dwelling (subject to necessary planning consents)”. I have no connection with the property or the sale and cannot enter into correspondence.

See Image The Knocknagoney Garage at 173 Old Holywood Road. The premises appear on the 1907 map. This view is from the Old Holywood Road. I have no connection with the business.