Comber
Comber is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies 5 miles south of Newtownards, at the northern end of Strangford Lough. It is situated in the townland of Town Parks, the civil parish of Comber and the historic barony of Castlereagh Lower.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,080 residents
- Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland
- Also known as: “Comber, County Down”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scrabo Tower and Castle Espie.
Scrabo Tower
Photo: Elkay62, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scrabo Tower is a 135 feet high 19th-century lookout tower or folly that stands on Scrabo Hill near Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland. It provides wide views and is a landmark that can be seen from afar. Scrabo Tower is situated 2½ miles northeast of Comber.
Castle Espie
Nature reserve
Photo: SeamusSweeney, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. Castle Espie is situated 2½ miles southeast of Comber.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballybeen and Newtownards.
Ballybeen
Suburb
Photo: Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballybeen, also known as Ballybeen Housing Estate, is the second-biggest housing estate in Northern Ireland. It is in the village of Dundonald, on the outskirts of east Belfast. Ballybeen is situated 3½ miles northwest of Comber.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
Dundonald
Town
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dundonald is a town in the traditional County Down, east of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It lies east of Belfast and is a suburb of the city. It is home to Moat Park, the Ulster Hospital, and Dundonald International Ice Bowl. Dundonald is situated 4 miles northwest of Comber.
Comber
- Category: locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.54983° or 54° 32′ 59″ northLongitude
-5.74543° or 5° 44′ 44″ westPopulation
9,080Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C6PG7X3+WROpenStreetMap ID
node 267762565OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2652505Wikidata ID
Q116787
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Comber” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Comber”
- Basque: “Comber”
- Bulgarian: “Комбър”
- Catalan: “Comber”
- Cebuano: “Comber”
- Chinese: “康伯”
- Chinese: “康柏”
- Dutch: “Comber”
- French: “Comber”
- German: “Comber”
- Irish: “An Comar”
- Italian: “Comber”
- Japanese: “コンバー”
- Lithuanian: “Komberis”
- Malay: “Comber”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Comber”
- Norwegian: “Comber”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comber”
- Polish: “Comber”
- Portuguese: “Comber”
- Russian: “Комбер”
- Scots: “Commer”
- Spanish: “Comber”
- Swedish: “Comber”
- Urdu: “کومبر”
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Notable Places Nearby
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