Belfield, Guyana

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Belfield is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica Region of Guyana on the Atlantic Ocean coast, located at 6°43′60″N, 57°58′0″W 3 km west of Enmore.

The first section of The Demerara-Berbice Railway, from Georgetown to Plaisance, was opened on 3 November 1848. The extension to Belfield was completed in 1854.

Belfield was once home to the Belfield Girls' School, a school for delinquent girls, founded in 1949.