Helen’s Bay
Helen's Bay is a village on the northern coast of County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballygrot, between Holywood, Crawfordsburn and Bangor.- Type: Village with 1,390 residents
- Description: village in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Helen’s Bay, County Down” and “Helen’s Bay, County Down, Northern Ireland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helen’s Bay railway station and Seahill railway station.
Helen’s Bay railway station
Railway station
Photo: Michael Parry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helen's Bay railway station serves Helen's Bay as well as the nearby village of Crawfordsburn in the townland of Ballygrot, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Seahill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seahill railway station is located in the townland of Ballyrobert in the Seahill area of Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. The station was opened on 4 April 1966.
Carnalea railway station
Railway station
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carnalea railway station is located in the townland of Carnalea in northwest Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was first opened by the B.C.D.R. on its present site at Station Walk on 1 June 1877 with only an up platform, and a brake van as an office. Carnalea railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Helen’s Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilcooley estate and Bangor.
Kilcooley estate
Suburb
Kilcooley estate is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism. Kilcooley estate is situated 2½ miles southeast of Helen’s Bay.
Bangor
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bangor is a town on the south shore of Belfast Lough, in County Down. It was a holiday resort from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century but is now chiefly a commuter town for Belfast. In 2021 it had a population of 64,000.
Carrickfergus
Photo: Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carrickfergus is a town 12 miles northeast of Belfast, historically in County Antrim, with a population in 2021 of 28,000. Its main attraction is the sturdy 12th-century Norman castle.
Helen’s Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.67278° or 54° 40′ 22″ northLongitude
-5.74533° or 5° 44′ 43″ westPopulation
1,390Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)Open location code
9C6PM7F3+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 137947214OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647179Wikidata ID
Q205207
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Helen’s Bay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Helen’s Bay”
- Bengali: “হেলেন’স বে”
- Dutch: “Helen’s Bay”
- Finnish: “Helen’s Bay”
- French: “Helen’s Bay”
- Irish: “Cuan Héilin”
- Italian: “Helen’s Bay”
- Malay: “Helen’s Bay”
- Pali: “हेलेन’स बी”
- Persian: “خلیج هلن”
- Spanish: “Helen’s Bay”
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