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insect and fish populations. Many species of bird and wildfowl such as mallard, teal, coot, Additional Information moorhen, tufted duck, and gulls, are a common The Trail William Morrison a local poet born in 1881 was Mallusk Nature sight all year round. In the summer they are known as the Bard of Mallusk. He lived at Rosevale joined by Great Crested Grebes and geese, as Cottage on the site of the present Play Area until the well as swallows and martins, taking advantage 1970’s. He wrote many poems about the area but and Heritage Trail of the prolific insect life. Other visitors include none more poignant than ‘A Dream of the Past’, the last verse of which laments the industrialisation of a Whooper Swans and migrating geese and TEMPLEPATRICK 5 Sealstown Sealstown 3 once idyllic rural setting… predators such as the Peregine Falcon and the Park Road Road Cormorant. The otter can often be seen at dusk 4 Mallusk Road when it searches for fish along the streams 2 ‘Offtimes in reflection, my heart rends with pain, Road between the dams and the Six Mile Water. Parkmount P SANDYKNOWES The scenes of my boyhood I’ll ne’er see again, 12 Go back along Hyde Park Road towards 6 1 Eclipsed by a factory, a structure so vast, Trench Lane Tudor Park Highgate 13 Ballymartin Mallusk Village. Opposite the reservoir you will Drive Grange Lane The green Dairy Fields are a dream of the past’ pass an impressive house in it’s own grounds Water on your left. This is now a Presbyterian Church Tudor Park Residential Home. It was originally built in Hydepark Contacts For More Information the early 1900s as a home for the influential Manor Hydepark Road Newtownabbey Borough Council McBride family and was known as 7 Hydepark Museums and Heritage Officer and Biodiversity Officer Denegarth House. Manor 12 Grange Tel: 028 9034 0000 13 At the junction Lane 9 Mallusk Community Action Group 8 Grange of Hyde Park Lane Grange Email: [email protected] Road and Grange Lane Mill www.malluskcag.co.uk Mallusk Road 10 11 is Hyde Park Sixmilewater River Trust Presbyterian Hydepark Dam Email: [email protected] Church Tel: 0789 4685 230 opened in 1862 at a cost of £1,140. The Church has been granted listed 1 Mallusk Primary 8 Smythe Memorial Hall Selected Books building status, reflecting its architectural and School Through The Ages to Newtownabbey historical significance. Turning left on to Mallusk 9 Mallusk National 2 Parkmount Housing School Robert Armstrong, second edition, 1997 Road you will pass Academy Sports Club, Estate the site of the 19th century Post Office. The 10 Hyde Park Methodist Our Thoughts Go Back Club has rugby, cricket and hockey teams and 3 Mallusk Cemetery Church Mallusk Primary School, 1986 used to play on beautiful grounds here until the 4 Hyde Park War 11 Hyde Park Bleaching Thanks go to local historian and lifelong Mallusk 1980’s when Highgate housing complex was Memorial Orange Hall and Finishing Works resident, Archie Montgomery in compiling the built. They now play a few miles up the road 5 Brook Cottage 12 Denegarth House information for this trail. at the Belfast Royal Academy playing fields at Roughfort. 6 Hyde Park Bleaching 13 Hyde Park This leaflet has been funded by the International Fund for Ireland. and Finishing Works Presbyterian Church The leaflet is available in large print on request and can be The trail ends back at the Play Area car park. downloaded from www.malluskcag.co.uk 7 Grange of Mallusk United Irishman and a key figure in the 1798 Cunningham, who played for Northern Ireland in past today will already have made a journey To get to Mallusk Rebellion and Francis Joseph Bigger, a celebrated the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden, was born in through Hydepark Dam and will join the Six Mile Take the M2 motorway, leaving at Junction 4. historian and author. The old lamp and iron a terrace house at Bluecastle. Water and continue to Lough Neagh. From the main roundabout, take the first exit onto frame in front of the gravediggers hut was used 6 At the end of the footbridge proceed left up the 8 Proceed along the lane until you come to Scullion’s Road signposted Mallusk. by families in the 19th century whilst they stood Sealstown Road to the ruins of Cottonmount Smythe Memorial Hall on your right, now Turn right at the traffic lights onto theMallusk Road. guard against body snatchers who would sell Finishing Works. This was linked to the Hyde a private residence. This was built in 1896 to Continue for about half a mile until you reach Mallusk human remains to the medical profession. Play Area in front of Mallusk Primary School. Park Bleaching and Finishing Works (see honour Samuel and George Smythe, father and There is limited parking here. 4 Walk back up Park Road and cross the Mallusk no.11), where the final stages of cotton and linen son, who were Rectors of Carnmoney Parish for Road baring right to Hyde Park War Memorial production were carried out. The mill owner’s a combined total of 107 years from 1796-1903. The walk will take 1-1.5 hours. Orange Hall, built in 1933. Note the plaque on residence, Cottonmount House, stood 9 On the left at the bridge was the old Mallusk the left side of the front of the hall commemorating adjacent to the Works. Cottonmount Row, which Take care on roads at all times, particularly as you National School built in the early 1800’s and the opening by Sir Robert Baird. The hall became still remains, housed the mill workers. Two dams cross the Mallusk Road. This walk is undertaken at now a private residence. Originally, girls were a social centre for residents hosting events were also sited here but have now been filled in. your own risk and includes areas of uneven ground. taught in a large room upstairs, with the boys in such as concerts, plays and dances. During the Please wear appropriate footwear. 7 Continue up the hill for 100 metres and turn left a similar size room downstairs. Younger children Second World War it served as a NAAFI for troops into Grange Lane, a throwback to when the area were accommodated in a smaller room on the Children should be accompanied by an adult. stationed nearby. was known as the ‘Grange of Mallusk’. When ground floor. It remained in operation until 1936 5 Continue along the Mallusk Road until you come to you reach the private houses on your right, take when the present Mallusk Primary School was 1 The trail starts at Mallusk Primary School, Trench Lane on your left, just before you reach the the lower narrow lane on the left. built on the Mallusk Road. The stone bridge, opened in 1936, to replace the old National bridge. Looking up Trench Lane you will see some erected in 1942 replaced a prior wooden The large 19th century white house on your right School in Trench Lane (see no.9). old 19th century cottages. The one on the right, structure, and is the centre of the little hamlet was the home of the Finney Family and older known as Brook Cottage, was once the village known as Trench. 2 Turning left out of the car park you will pass residents still refer to Grange Lane as Finney’s post office and the gardens across the lane once Parkmount Housing Estate, which was built Lane. In its prime the house had tennis courts 10 Turn left over the bridge and then immediately housed a small bicycle track with people coming in 1970 replacing an old row of twenty houses and croquet lawns and were used regularly by right down the narrow extension of Grange Lane from far and wide to compete in races. On the other known as Parkmount Terrace and occupying an people from the village. with the river on your right. You will come to side of the Mallusk Road you will see house number area previously known as ‘the Cotterland’, where Hyde Park Methodist Church, built in 1829. 107 which used to be the village shop and house From here you will walk along the bank of the linen was dried. Cross the Mallusk Road and walk This currently houses the Mallusk playgroup number 109 which was the site of an underground Ballymartin Water, a tributary of the Six Mile a short distance down Park Road to the gates of while upstairs the place of worship has air raid shelter during the Second World War. At Water. The Ballymartin Water begins its journey the cemetery. remained unchanged since the 19th century. the footbridge look across the Mallusk Road and in the Belfast Hills, and the water you see flowing 3 Mallusk you will see a row of private houses known as 11 On the right is the site of the Hyde Park Cemetery is Old Mill Crescent. These formerly operated as a Bleaching and Finishing Works. Dating back located on the site textile beetling mill and pumping house. Further to the 18th century, the works and grounds of a 14th century up the main road on the left is the village pub, covered 210 acres. Turn right onto Hyde Park church built by The Cottonmount Arms, known locally as Baldys. Road and then right again into Hyde Park Lane the Knights of St Beside this is Ophir Rugby Club founded in and you will see the vast ruins of a once thriving John.