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The Donegall Road is a residential area and road traffic thoroughfare that runs from Shaftesbury Square on the "Golden Mile" to the Falls Road in west Belfast. It is bisected by the Westlink – M1 motorway. The largest section of the road, east of the Broadway junction with the Westlink, is predominantly loyalist. The remainder is predominantly republican. ==Overview== The eastern side the road and the streets leading from it, are predominantly Protestant and include the well-known Sandy Row and The Village areas. The Village, an area centred on the loyalist section of Broadway and vaguely conforming to the upper half of the Protestant section of the road, was said to have been given the name by African-American GIs stationed at a base on Maldon Street during the Second World War, who described their occasional trips to the shops in the area as "going to the village".〔 Previously the area was locally known by a number of names including Broadway, Donegall Road, Blackstaff, Linfield and Windsor but the Village name caught on and is still in common usage.〔Billy Dickson, "American GIs Helped Make Broadway Famous", ''South Belfast Community Telegraph'', 26 January 2012〕 The Greater Village Regeneration Trust extends the definition further to cover the entire Protestant part of the road as well as Sandy Row.〔(Greater Village Regeneration Trust )〕 Most of the housing is of the 'two up, two down' (many of them converted) red-bricked terraced variety. The area is mostly working class, but has become a catchment area for student rental accommodation due to its close proximity to Queen's University. Across Broadway in West Belfast the demographics change as the road forms the southern border of the almost exclusively Roman Catholic St. James' area. Located where this section of the road meets the Broadway intersection is the Park Centre, a shopping centre built on the former site of Celtic Park, the home of the now defunct Belfast Celtic.〔(Park Centre )〕 The roundabout at this intersection is also home to ''Rise'', a huge spherical metal sculpture completed in 2011.〔(RISE sculpture – Broadway Roundabout )〕 The road provides access to the Belfast City Hospital and the City Hospital railway station. Travelling outwards from the city centre also takes one to the Broadway entrance of the Royal Victoria Hospital. The road gets particularly congested at peak times. It is bordered by the Lisburn Road, the "Golden Mile" and Sandy Row. A number of churches are to be found both on the road itself and the adjacent streets. Broadway Gospel Hall, St. Simon's Church of Ireland, Donegall Road Methodist Church, Donegall Road Gospel Hall, Richview Presbyterian Church,〔(Richview Presbyterian Church )〕 St. Aidan's Church Hall, Church of the Nazarene on Roseland Place〔(Church of the Nazarene Lisburn )〕 and the William Tyndale Memorial Free Presbyterian Church on Donegall Avenue. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donegall Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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