SIX ROADS COMMUNITY

WYNTER CRAWFORD CIRCLE













From Cane Fields to a Business Hub.

Six Cross Roads Community has grown developmentally from an Agricultural Plantation in the nineteen fifties and sixties when sugar was king to a flourishing business community. Where cane blades once dotted the landscape is now replaced with infrastructure.

This six Cross Roads is historic and unique because it is the only district on the island of Barbados with Six Cross Roads originally named “Six Paths’’

The development of this area has progressed through the tireless efforts of Wynter Crawford Parliamentary Representative for St. PhILIP.                                                                                       

Over the past decades Six Cross Roads has grown from a local village at the confluence of Highways 5, 6, 7, to a regionally significant centre serving the surrounding south-eastern part of the island. It is a comprehensive and cohesive community and provides regional institutional functions.

Commercial Centre

An assortment of shops is concentrated at the core of the community on land parcels adjacent to the cross roads. These shops provide a range of local amenities such as hardware goods, food market, video store, pharmacy, gas station, bars and a fast food restaurant and a bank. Some autobody repair and related uses are also dispersed along Highway 5.

A shopping centre, developed in the 1980’s and improved over the years is located on a large site east of the cross roads. A bank, supermarket, post office and department stores are concentrated in this area.

The Barbados Investment and Development Corporation owns and operates the Six Cross Roads Industrial Park, a 12.6 hectare site which fronts onto the north side of Highway 5 east of the cross roads. Many small business ventures are tenants in the Six Cross Roads Industrial Park.

Community/ Institutional Facilities

Within Six Cross Roads a number of institutional facilities and Government offices including the Six Cross Roads polyclinic, Six Cross Roads Post Office, Six Cross Roads Public Market, Six Cross Roads Branch Library, Six Cross Roads Welfare Office and Princess Margaret Secondary School are concentrated northeast of the cross roads.

Open Space

The Farm Garden Park is one of Barbados’ best examples of a contemporary local public space. Developed as part of the Farm Garden subdivision, the Park is located at the core of this community, yet with its adjacency to Highway 6 is accessible from surrounding communities. A new nursery school the Olga Millar Nursery was recently erected on a parcel of land in the Farm Garden area and enhances the development of education in the community and beyond.