Crawfordsburn is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is between Holywood and Bangor to the north of the A2 road, about 4km west of Bangor town centre and is really a commuter village. It is bounded to the north and north east by Crawfordsburn Country Park. It is a picturesque village with a lot of visitors. It had a population of 531 people in the 2001 Census. It is within the North Down Borough Council area. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... County Down, (An Dún in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, covering an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). ... official_languages = Englishde facto5| Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)3 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked... Holywood Location Holywood (Sactus Boscum in Latin, Ard Mhic Nasca in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the shores of Belfast Lough. ... Places Called Bangor Bangor is the name of several places: In the United Kingdom: Bangor, a town in County Down, Northern Ireland Bangor, a city in Gwynedd, Wales (and home of the University of Wales, Bangor) Bangor-on-Dee (a. ... Census 2001 is the name by which the national census conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 is known. ... North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. ...

Crawfordsburn originated in the 17th century as a small settlement on an important routeway along North Down. It has retained elements of its 17th century history along its Main Street including the coaching inn. The Sharman-Crawford family developed the village in the 18th and 19th centuries. Crawfordsburn was promoted as a Victorian tourist attraction, particularly for those visitors using the railway to nearby Helens Bay. (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... Helens Bay is a small village on the North Down coastline between Crawfordsburn and Seahill. ...

Places of Interest

The Old Inn, Crawfordsburn has been in existence since the 1600s. Records show this building to be standing in its present form since 1614. There is evidence that substantial additions were made in the middle of the 18th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Donaghadee was one of the principal cross-channel ports between Ireland and Great Britain. The mail coach making connections with the sailing packet, changed horses at The Old Inn at Crawfordsburn and so it came to be patronised by many notable people including Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope. It was also frequented by C. S. Lewis. Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Donaghadee (Domhnach Daoi in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland, situated on the east coast, about 18 miles from Belfast. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub. ... Alfred, Lord Tennyson British poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892) was one of the most popular English poets of his time. ... William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. ... Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar, born into a Protestant family in Belfast, though mostly resident in England. ...

Crawfordsburn Country Park, on the southern shores of Belfast Lough, features 3.5km of coastline and the two best beaches in the Belfast area. The Park also includes Grey Point Fort, a coastal battery and gun emplacement dating from the early 20th century and updated during World War II. Belfast Lough (Loch Lao in Irish) is a large intertidal sea lough situated at the mouth of the River Lagan on the east coast of Northern Ireland. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest...

2001 Census

Crawfordsburn is classified by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) as being within Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 531 people living in Crawfordsburn. Of these: Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

• 13.4% were aged under 16 years and 31.3% were aged 60 and over
• 46.3% of the population were male and 53.7% were female
• 9.6% were from a Catholic background and 84.4% were from a Protestant background
• 1.5% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing a split from within the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe —a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...

References

• The Old Inn, Crawfordsburn
• Crawfordsburn Country Park
• North Down Borough Council
• Draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015

See Also

• List of villages in Northern Ireland
• List of towns in Northern Ireland