Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College
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.- Email: info@bangoracademy.bangor.ni.sch.uk
- Type: School
- Description: secondary school in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland
- Also known as: “Bangor Academy and 6th Form College”
- Address: 2 Castle Park Road, Bangor, County Down BT20 4TB
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bangor Bus and Rail Centre and Ward Park.
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 1,500 feet west of Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College.
Ward Park
Park
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Ward Park is situated 1,100 feet east of Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College.
Bangor Abbey
Church
Photo: Andrew Muir, CC BY 2.0.
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral. Bangor Abbey is situated 2,200 feet west of Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College.
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.
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".
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College
- Categories: secondary school and education
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.65753° or 54° 39′ 27″ northLongitude
-5.66482° or 5° 39′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C6PM85P+23OpenStreetMap ID
way 678219647OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q4855537
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- Catalan: “Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College”
- French: “Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College”
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