🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Shaftesbury Square & Botanic Avenue Heritage Walk

📍 Belfast🚶 6 stops🚶️ 0.55km⌛ ~25 min

Belfast's 'Golden Mile' begins here — a Victorian church turned music hall, a chapel built for the Deaf community, a vanished theatre, and the old tollgate where the Dublin road began. Looking for things to do in Belfast? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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🌐 Walk This Trail

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Stops on This Trail

  1. The Empire Music Hall
  2. Kinghan Church for the Deaf
  3. Site of the Belfast Arts Theatre
  4. Bradbury Place — the old Dublin road tollgate
  5. Shaftesbury Square corner (2/6 Bradbury Place)
  6. Shaftesbury Square Reformed Presbyterian Church

For Schools

This trail is also available as a free printable classroom worksheet or full trail booklet — no site visit required. See how Classroom Prep Mode works →