Bushmills
| Bushmills | |
| County Antrim | |
|---|---|
 Bushmills | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | C941406 |
| Location: | 55°12’13"N, 6°31’24"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,319 (2001) |
| Post town: | Bushmills |
| Postcode: | BT57 |
| Dialling code: | 028 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Causeway Coast & Glens |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Antrim |
Bushmills is a large village on the north coast of County Antrim, famed for the Bushmills Distillery. It was a village of 1,319 souls at the 2001 Census, and is to be found eleven miles west of Ballycastle, and nine miles west of Coleraine. The village owes its name to the River Bush and to a large watermill that was built there in the early 17th century.
Places of interest
The village is best known as the location of the Old Bushmills Distillery. The distillery's products include the Bushmills Original and Black Bush blends, as well as the 10-, 12-, 16-, and 21-year-old Bushmills Single Malts. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of distilling starting in the area the distillery released a unique whiskey called the "1608" which included crystal malt. The distillery draws its water, not from the River Bush itself, but from a tributary known as Saint Columbs Rill.
The Giant's Causeway is just two miles north of the town.
Transport links
Bushmills railway station opened on 28 January 1883, but finally closed on 1 October 1949.[1]
In the summer, a narrow-gauge railway, the Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway runs along the coast between Bushmills and the Giant's Causeway, its trains either steam-hauled or electric.
The Belfast-Londonderry railway line connects to Coleraine and along the branch line to Portrush. There is a scenic walk of seven miles from Portrush alongside Dunluce Castle.
The , a tiny, narrow-gauge railway, runs along the coast form the Giant's Causeway to Bushmills.
Bushmills was the location of one of the five Consol Navigation System transmitter stations in the years following the Second World War.[2]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bushmills) |
References
- ↑ "Bushmills station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ↑ Dolphin Mk 3 Technical Manual
