Whitewell Road

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The Whitewell Road is an interface area in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, and historically the site of occasional clashes between nationalists and loyalists. The Whitewell Road and the surrounding area is a residential community in the Greencastle parish. The beginning of the White City residential estate on the upper Whitewell Road marks the boundary between the Nationalist and Loyalist communities there. The Whitewell area is considered a working class area.

Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle Church, the largest building of its kind throughout the United Kingdom since World War II, sits at the bottom of the Whitewell Road.

Hazelwood Comprehensive College is located on the Whitewell Road. It is an integrated comprehensive secondary school, drawing students from various religious and community backgrounds throughout the greater Belfast area.

A peace line runs the length of Serpentine Gardens there.

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