However, it is now part of the Greater Belfast conurbation and the name is a descriptor used loosely to describe the very broad area including Belvoir, Four Winds and Knockbreda.

The church consecrated by Francis Hutchinson, Bishop of Down and Connor, on Sunday 7 August 1737.

A 48,000 square feet (4,500 m2) Tesco store was built on a brownfield site, (formerly a warehouse for the Stewarts Supermarket chain) and opened in 2007.

[3][4] On 23 September 1992 a Provisional IRA bomb destroyed the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory (NIFSL) on the Newtownbreda Road.

[5] The IRA had given a warning, and British Army bomb disposal experts were investigating an abandoned van when the explosion occurred.