Investigation of Whether the Quality of Environment Changes with the Distance from the CBD in Lisburn

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Investigation of Whether the Quality of Environment Changes with the Distance from the CBD in Lisburn

My Survey was going to be limited by time. We had to look at an area

from the centre of the town to the edge. I chose a transect across the

town, west to east. The total length of the transect is 2.5 km.,

selecting sample points every 100m on gridlines - 12 western, 12

eastern. See map Appendix 1.

We needed a map of the transect lines, data collection sheets, camera,

clipboard and suitable clothing.

History of Lisburn

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The history of Lisburn as a town really begins in 1600. In that

dramatic year scores of Irish chieftains were in arms against the rule

of the English in Ireland, and among them was the chief of Killultagh

whose stronghold the tiny village of Lis-na-garvoch - formed the

nucleus of the modern town of Lisburn.

Of the great rebellion in 1641, in which Lisburn remained loyal to

England and King Charles 1, the records have this to say: "More than

300 of the insurgents were slain in Bridge Street and 300 in Castle

Street and in the meadows behind the houses." The rebels, unable to

take the town, reduced it to ashes, whereupon the name of Lisnagarvey

began to change to that of Lisburn.

In 1707, another great fire halted the growth of Lisburn. Once again

it was reduced to ashes, this time even the great castle falling to

the flames. The castle was never rebuilt, but its gardens remained to

become the property of the people of Lisburn in the later nineteenth

century.

Strangely enough the Lisburn textile industries are indebted in no

small measure to Louis XIV of France, for in 1685 that monarch began a

campaign of persecution against the French Protestants, or Huguenots.

These refugees who fled from France enrich many parts of Europe, but

perhaps none as much as the Lagan Valley.

History of Lisburn

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Until well into the nineteenth century men such as the Crommelins and

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