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Issue 12 of Saintfield Development Association’s Saintfield News is available for download HERE.

Open Meeting of Saintfield Development Association Date: Monday 19th September Venue: Saintfield Sports Club Time: 7.30 pm The Agenda for the meeting can be downloaded HERE. Everyone welcome. Come along and find out what the SDA is doing for Saintfield and make your views known!

You might have noticed that members of Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been busy over the spring and summer cleaning Saintfield’s streets.  You can discover how many bags of dirt and litter they have gathered by looking HERE.

Saintfield Development Association sponsored two local bands to play in the Rowallane courtyard during the European Heritage Open Day last Saturday.  Baillies Mills Accordion Band  Cahard Flute Band

Join Saintfield Development Association for its 4th Annual Pedal The Peninsula cycle ride on Sunday 4th September     The 53-mile route round beautiful Strangford Lough starts and ends in Saintfield, and is fully marshalled and sign posted. However, for a bit of a change, the circuit will be completed in an anticlockwise direction. We will leave… Continue reading Pedal The Peninsula 2016 – Sunday 4th September

Saintfield Development Association’s own competition for the best floral displays for both small and large businesses has taken place and the winners are: Large Premises:- First: R. Savage & Co. Runner-up: Second Saintfield Presbyterian Church SDA member Anne Walker presenting Noel Gibson of R. Savage & Co. with their certificate. Small Premises:- First: Masseys of… Continue reading Saintfield In Bloom 2016 – The Winners!

Monday 12th September? 12:30 – 13:30.  Are you free? Armchair Aerobics might be just what you are looking for! Come along and have a go! Come along to Rowallane Community Hub (35 Main Street, Saintfield, behind the former Rowallane Credit Union) Everyone Welcome!

Saintfield Development Association is sponsoring two renowned local bands to play in the courtyard  of Rowallane Garden, Saintfield’s National Trust property, on Saturday 10th September.  Baillies Mills Accordion Band will be playing from 2:00 – 3:00 pm. Cahard Flute Band will conclude the afternoon of music playing from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. Entry to Rowallane will… Continue reading Music In Rowallane Courtyard – Saturday 10th September

Members of Saintfield Heritage Society will give a guided tour of the many listed buildings and conservation area of Saintfield, sharing their stories and history along the way. Until 1712 Saintfield was known as Tonaghneave – Tamnach naomh, “the field of the saint”.  Neither the origin of the name nor the location of a saintly… Continue reading Guided Walk Around Saintfield (Sunday 11th September)