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Clement Wilson Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a small 1.2 mile circular park in South Belfast. Its on Newforge Lane beside the Lock Keepers in at Shaws Bridge. It passes by the River Lagan - so it is a popular location for walkers and joggers. The park is small and has been made disabled friendly.

Looking back on the history of Clement Wilson Park and the place that it takes nowadays, we will find that it was originally occupied by a clog factory, which produced goods for people working in the mills as well as some other industries.

The journey of the park started back in 1929 when the factory site was bought by Wilson Management Ltd. who also purchased 25 acres of the land to the north east of Shaw's Bridge and there was even more land added to this space to reach 54 acres in total in 1960. This journey did not start with bringing this park immediately, but it passed through other stages at the beginning since it was first used as a factory to produce soft fruit for canning.

Later and after Clement Wilson noticed that the staff working for his factory enjoy the land surrounding it by walking through the place because they didn't have the right amount of time to go back home to have lunch, he then decided to transfer the landscape into gardens and thus it became the first "factory garden" to be found in Northern Ireland - it is also one of those parks in the city which we are now referring to for those searching for a place to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and have some peaceful time.

This story stayed back in history until the World War II came to life because the story of the park was changed from that time after. After the WWII, the factory was closed and not just that, but also a water current began at Shaw's Bridge and fed water from the River Lagan to the site which was filled in using rubble from demolished air-raid shelters and buildings. This covered millrace was then a raised walkway that was known as "Burmah Road" and it is now the main path through the park.

At this point there wasn't still the Clement Wilson Park which we now visit and go to but the negotiations of starting a park at that place started in 1974 when the council began them with the Clement family in order to purchase the site from them and they managed to buy 41 acres of land in order to turn it into a public park - this could also now explain to the public why the park is given this name; it is believed that there was a request from the family for giving the park the name of the company's chairman.

Officially speaking, Clement Wilson Park opened its gates after all those years to the public in October 1975 and from that time it was placed among the list of parks in Belfast that are usually visited and checked by the tourists who come to visit Belfast and discover the beautiful places that are located in it.

There are lots of parks and green spaces in Northern Ireland and Ireland in general and this might be even one of the different things that is always differentiating Ireland from the rest of the world; lots of people always mention Ireland when it comes to the greenery areas that one could be able to visit in a place.

Some of the other parks in Northern Ireland which we went to visit include Lagan Valley Regional Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qXid..., Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park which is considered from the most popular in Belfast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJgb..., Colin Glen Forest Park in county Antrim where Gruffalo Trail is located (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD3ZX..., Hazelbank Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rmxg..., Tollymore Forest Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2HsW..., Ormeau Park in Belfast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nK8..., St. Columb's Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U24m8..., Roe Valley Country Park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef8B9...) and the list could keep going further because there are actually lots of parks in Northern Ireland and Ireland that one could spend the whole vacation just checking them :-)!

Always choose the park that would be closer to your location where you could have some fresh air but if you happen to be already living in Belfast or any other city in Northern Ireland then you could do a long list of parks which you could visit one of them every now and then.

It was a different trip for us, not just for the fact of having some fresh air away from the city streets, but also because we got to know more about the history of this place - sometimes you never know that there is such a long history behind a specific location.

We have made this visit as a 360 degree video from Northern Ireland - so if you want to discover Northern Ireland from the comfort of your chair... have a look around the ConnollyCove channel and see our collection of videos.

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