Skip to content

Terrace Hill Garden

Terrace Hill Garden from directly overhead

Terrace Hill Garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Slieve Croob stands 534 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Female Figure, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 8.3 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
National Trust

How to reach it

Coordinates54.54678, -5.95215

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Female Figure: 0.0 mi
  • Cake and Eat it: 0.0 mi
  • Mole: 0.1 mi
  • Composite Beast: 0.2 mi
  • King: 0.2 mi
Parks
  • Barnett Demesne: 0.4 mi
  • Clement Wilson Park: 0.6 mi
  • Strangford Avenue Playing Fields: 1.2 mi
  • Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park: 1.4 mi
  • Wedderburn Park: 1.5 mi
Attractions
Gardens
  • Floribunda Rose Trials: 1.2 mi
  • Past Trial, Floribunda Winnders, Climbers Rose Trials, Miniatures Rose Trials: 1.2 mi
  • Princess Diana Memorial Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Display Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Irish Heritage Garden: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Keiran Doherty TD Memorial: 2.5 mi
  • Lord Kelvin's Statue: 2.6 mi
  • WWI Memorial: 2.7 mi
  • Victoria Crosses of the 36th Ulster Division: 2.8 mi
  • Lisnabreeny Memorial: 2.9 mi
Peaks
Museums: 36
Nature reserves: 22
Springs: 11
Beaches: 10
  • Newtownabbey Bay (Hazelbank) Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Seapark Beach: 8.8 mi
  • Brompton Bay: 13.6 mi
  • Skippingstone Beach: 13.8 mi
  • Kilclief Beach: 22.0 mi
Cliffs: 9
  • Limestone Quarry: 6.5 mi
  • Cave Hill: 7.1 mi
  • Bellevue Area of Special Scientific Interest: 7.8 mi
  • Spinkanee: 17.8 mi
  • Nerwcastle Beach Bouldering: 23.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Lisnabreeney Waterfall: 2.8 mi
  • Stepping Stones: 12.0 mi
  • Glenoe Waterfall: 18.1 mi
  • Black Stairs: 24.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Terrace Hill Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slieve CroobS 183°534 m14.3 mi
DivisNNW 329°478 m5.2 mi
SlieveniskyS 182°446 m14.9 mi
CratlieveS 189°429 m14.9 mi
SlievegarranS 184°391 m16.2 mi
Black MountainNNW 335°389 m4.5 mi
Squires HillN 350°374 m6.6 mi
CavehillN 0°368 m7.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2817:4918:37
June solstice04:4821:0422:04
September equinox07:1018:3819:25
December solstice08:4514:4816:00

Local time (Europe/London).

  • Himalayan balsam78 obs
  • lesser celandine70 obs
  • Cuckoo-pint61 obs
  • Seven-spotted Lady Beetle56 obs
  • Little Grebe52 obs
  • Common Moorhen52 obs
  • Grey Heron51 obs
  • Giant Hogweed51 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/266013854

Drive to it

Byway plans a real route around stops like this one.

Private beta · Free to join

Take the scenic way to Terrace Hill Garden.

Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.

Private beta · Free to join · No card · Invite when a spot opens