Ward Park
Ward Park is situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The 37-acre park contains 10 tennis courts, a duck pond and a selection of wildfowl housed in breeding pens.Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bangor Bus and Rail Centre and Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre
Railway station
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is a combined rail and bus interchange which serves the city of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. The station in its current form was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the new millennium. Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is situated 2,500 feet west of Ward Park.
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College
School
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is an 11–18 co-educational, secondary school and sixth form in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school dates from 2001 when the non-selective Bangor Girls High School and the non-selective Gransha Boys' High school merged. Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is situated 1,100 feet west of Ward Park.
Glenlola Collegiate School
School
Glenlola Collegiate School is an all-girls' grammar school in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school was founded as a school for girls in approximately 1880. Glenlola Collegiate School is situated 1,600 feet southwest of Ward Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangor and Kilcooley estate.
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.
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 1½ miles southwest of Ward Park.
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".
Ward Park
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Bangor, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.65819° or 54° 39′ 30″ northLongitude
-5.6598° or 5° 39′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C6PM85R+73OpenStreetMap ID
way 552447325OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkWikidata ID
Q7969060
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In Other Languages
“Ward Park” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沃德公园”
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Highlights include Bangor Community Hospital and Ward Park Gravel Area.
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