page_title: Bellarena
hierarchical_section_title: Bellarena
caption_attribution_description: English: Bellarena Railway Station, 3 km from Aghanloo, Ireland. Another view of the station seen in &lt;a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/342143"&gt;C6631&#160;: Bellarena Railway Station&lt;/a&gt;. The station opened on the 18th July 1853 although the buildings and staionmaster&#39;s house are now in private ownership (including self-catering accommodation &lt;a title="http://www.bellarenarailwaystation.com/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bellarenarailwaystation.com/"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/&gt; ). This track and halt, on the Belfast - Derry/Londonderry line, are still in daily use.
context_page_description: Bellarena north of Limavady. The land was settled in the mid-17th century by a Northamptonshire gentleman, William Gage, who bought the lease of the estate – then called Ballymargy from the Irish meaning "town of the market" – from the Lord Bishop of Derry. In the 2001 census the population was 291. The village lies within Causeway Coast and Glens District Council area and the Binevenagh Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with open views eastwards to the scarp slope of Binevenagh. The village gets its name from the Earl Bishop of Derry.
context_section_description: Bellarena (derived from French belle "beautiful" + Latin arena "sand, strand"; is a small village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is on the A2 coastal road between Limavady and Coleraine, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Limavady. The land was settled in the mid-17th century by a Northamptonshire gentleman, William Gage, who bought the lease of the estate – then called Ballymargy from the Irish meaning "town of the market" – from the Lord Bishop of Derry. In the 2001 census the population was 291.  The village lies within Causeway Coast and Glens District Council area and the Binevenagh Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with open views eastwards to the scarp slope of Binevenagh. The village gets its name from the Earl Bishop of Derry.
caption: Bellarena Railway Station, May 2010
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