Belfield, Guyana
Belfield is a village in the Demerara-Mahaica Region of Guyana, standing on the Atlantic coast, three kilometres 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.
References
- ^ "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "The Demerara-Mahaica Railway – The First Railway in the South American Continent". Things Guyana. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- ^ "The very impressive Belfield Village was spawned from sprawling pastures". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
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