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Extract from the Banbridge Travel Guides:
Follow the A1 south from Hillsborough and you'll pass through
BANBRIDGE
on the River Bann. A trim, mainly Protestant town, with a growing Catholic population, Banbridge was a major linen centre and also a stop on the old coach route to the Mourne Mountains. However, the steep hill - now the main street - to the south of the river presented problems to horse-drawn mail coaches. A threat to bypass the town was enough to initiate drastic action - and the result is the town's best-known feature. In 1834 the wide main street was divided into three with an
underpass
, known to locals as "the cut", carved out in th...
read the whole Banbridge Travel Guides...
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