Burnfoot
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Burnfoot is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 4 kilometres north of Dungiven and 9 kilometres south of Limavady. It is beside the River Roe, with the greater part of the built up area on the western side of Drumrane Road. The village has a good range of social, educational and recreational facilities. The population has remained relatively static, with 195 people in the 2001 Census. It lies within the Limavady Borough Council area.It has quite a large village shop, footbal fields and a very good primary school. Burnfoot has two churches, Bovevagh Church of Ireland( St.Eugenius) and Camnish Presbyterian Church. Burnfoot has its own community hall and youth clubs such as Scouts and the Girls Brigade. Burnfoot has a very friendly community and has had a recent new housing development called Rosebrook which added another 15+ houses to the area, making the popilation now about 250.
Also, a few miles north of Derry (towards Buncrana), lies a small village called Burnfoot. It's quite small and not very pretty looking. There's talk of a bypass, although locals are protesting the bypass as a lot of business comes to burnfoot from people travelling through the town.
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- Draft Northern Area Plan 2016
- NI Neighbourhood Information Service
