Where is Merville Garden Village?

Merville Garden Village is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6558°, -5.9128°.

Gardens · Northern Ireland

Merville Garden Village

Merville Garden Village in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Pillar box, Merville, Newtownabbey - geograph.org.uk - 2234280 — Albert Bridge — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Dog-friendly

Merville Garden Village 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

Merville Garden Village is a housing estate located at Shore Road, Drumnadrough, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland created by structural and landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson. It was completed in 1949.

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Background

History

Merville was originally a private house, the modern-day Merville House, and estate built in 1795 by the Belfast banker and merchant John Brown (c.1740–1808). It was intended as his country retreat. Other fêted people would come to reside at the sprawling 24-acre shoreline manor. Between 1849–1887, for example, it was the home of Sir Edward Coey (1805–1887), noted as the first and only Liberal Party Mayor of Belfast (1861) and prominent wealthy businessman, who helped make Belfast one of the most prosperous manufacturing centres in the world during the 19th century. During WWII little to no houses were built and Belfast was becoming densely populated. So in 1947-49 the Garden Village, the…

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