🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Waterside Heritage Walk

📍 Derry🚶 8 stops🚶️ 1.79km⌛ ~50 min

Cross Craigavon Bridge to the east bank and follow the Waterside's Victorian spine — a rebuilt railway station, a run of 19th-century churches and schools, a Famine-era workhouse, and a star-fort barracks turned public square. Looking for things to do in Waterside? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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🌐 Walk This Trail

Opens the free interactive app — point your phone at each stop and hear it speak, in 12 languages.

Stops on This Trail

  1. Craigavon Bridge
  2. Waterside Railway Station
  3. St Columb's Church, Chapel Road
  4. Former Girls' School, Malvern Terrace
  5. Waterside Presbyterian Church
  6. All Saints Clooney Parish Church
  7. Derry Workhouse (Workhouse Museum)
  8. Ebrington Square (Ebrington Barracks)

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 →