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The Somme Heritage Centre, which is situated a little north of the town, is the Somme Association's flagship project. Situated adjacent to the Clandeboye Estate outside Newtownards, the centre is a unique visitor attraction of international significance showing the reality of the Great War and its effects on
The building was commissioned by Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry to be the centre of the market town, a role previously undertaken by Newtownards Priory. [2] It was designed by Ferdinando Stratford in a Grecian-Doric style and built of Scrabo stone between 1767 and 1771. [3] [4]
The A20 is a road in County Down in Northern Ireland.It runs from Belfast to Newtownards and on to Portaferry.. Beginning as the Newtownards Road at the junction of Bridge End close to Belfast city centre, the road runs in an easterly direction through east Belfast.
In common with all addresses in Northern Ireland, Belfast postcodes start with the letters BT, a mnemonic of the capital city's name. The commercial centre of the city is designated BT1 and the surrounding districts form a roughly sequential clockwise ring around the city. The postcode of the Royal Mail offices at Tomb Street in Belfast is BT1 1AA.
Map of the Rural and Urban Districts of Northern Ireland in 1967. The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier.
Newtownards is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Ards Lower and Castlereagh Lower. [1] Settlements.
Comber (from Irish An Comar, meaning 'the confluence' / ˈ k ʌ m (b) ər /, CUM-ber, locally cummer) [2] [3] is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland.It lies 5 miles (8 km) south of Newtownards, at the northern end of Strangford Lough.
Scrabo Tower overlooks Newtownards and the northern end of the Ards Peninsula.; Mount Stewart, an 18th-century house and garden owned by the National Trust near Greyabbey.It was the home of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry.