Newtownards
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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 29,400 residents
- Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Newtown Ards”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Newtownards Airport and Scrabo Tower.
Newtownards Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtownards Aerodrome is a local airfield in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, 8.5 NM east of Belfast. It offers light aircraft flights, helicopter flights, microlight flights and flight simulator training.
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.
Movilla Abbey
Church
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Movilla Abbey in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, is believed to have been one of Ulster's and Ireland's most important monasteries. Movilla should not be confused with Moville in County Donegal.
Newtownards
- Categories: post town and locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5934° or 54° 35′ 36″ northLongitude
-5.6961° or 5° 41′ 46″ westPopulation
29,400Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NTSOpen location code
9C6PH8V3+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 267762996OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Newtownards from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Newtownards” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Newtownards”
- Asturian: “Newtownards”
- Basque: “Newtownards”
- Belarusian: “Ньютаўнардс”
- Bulgarian: “Нютаунардс”
- Catalan: “Newtownards”
- Cebuano: “Newtownards”
- Chinese: “紐敦納茲”
- Chinese: “纽敦纳兹”
- Dutch: “Newtownards”
- Finnish: “Newtownards”
- French: “Newtownards”
- Galician: “Newtownards”
- German: “Newtownards”
- Hebrew: “ניוטוונרדס”
- Irish: “Baile Aird Uladh”
- Irish: “Baile Nua na hArda”
- Italian: “Newtownards”
- Japanese: “ニュータウナーズ”
- Japanese: “ニュートナーズ”
- Korean: “뉴타우나즈”
- Korean: “뉴튼아즈”
- Lithuanian: “Niutonardsas”
- Macedonian: “Њутонардс”
- Malay: “Newtownards”
- Northern Frisian: “Newtownards”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Newtownards”
- Norwegian: “Newtownards”
- Persian: “نیوتاوناردز”
- Polish: “Newtownards”
- Portuguese: “Newtownards”
- Russian: “Ньютаунардс”
- Slovenian: “Newtownards”
- Spanish: “Newtownards”
- Swedish: “Newtownards”
- Urdu: “نیو ٹاؤنارڈز”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Newtownards”. Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.