Upperlands (from Irish Áth an Phoirt Leathain, meaning 'ford of the broad (river) bank'[2]) is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Subsequent development of the industry led to the construction of substantial residences and small groups of workers homes, and shaped the form and character of Upperlands.

Boyne Row (a group of listed buildings), in its riverside setting, represents workers housing, built by the mill-owners.

[5] On 12 July 1921, despite a truce having recently been called in the ongoing war, members of the Upperlands Orange Lodge were fired on while returning from the Twelfth celebrations.

[8] According to Wallace Clark, casualties were narrowly averted when one of the men heard the retreating footsteps of the IRA volunteer who had planted the device.

[8] The Knockoneil River leased by the Clady And District Angling Club flows through the woodland and Clarks Dams and then onwards through the town.

The Grillagh River located a mile outside the town flowing under the Beresford Bridge on the Culnady Road Starting up in Carntogher Mountain and joining the Clady.

Water from the Knockoneil is diverted through various sluice gates biggest ones being located downstream from Amportane Bridge on the Hillside Road and once a millrace which flowed from Barney Lagans Flax Scutch Mill over the river via an aqueduct into the dams.

in the 1998 water was diverted from the Lapping Room Lake into a turbine for electricity which flows back into the source being the Knockoneil River.

Upperlands is classified as a small village or hamlet by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people).