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Ards Arts Centre

Ards Arts Centre from directly overhead

Ards Arts Centre is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Slieve Croob stands 534 m to the south-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Ards Tourist Trophy Memorial, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 9.4 miles off.

The Arts Service of Ards and North Down Borough Council provides an extensive programme of arts events, creative classes and workshops, exhibitions and performances of live music and theatre across the borough.

What to expect

Operated by
Ards and North Down Borough Council

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates54.59369, -5.69600

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Ards Tourist Trophy Memorial: 0.0 mi
  • Blair Mayne statue: 0.0 mi
  • Old Market Cross: 0.1 mi
  • Cenotaph: 0.2 mi
  • BCDR Railway Bridge: 0.4 mi
Parks
  • Branch Out Community Group: 0.3 mi
  • Jacob's Field: 0.3 mi
  • Glenford Park: 0.4 mi
  • Londonderry Park: 0.6 mi
  • Bully's Acre: 0.8 mi
Artworks
Gardens
Peaks
  • Scrabo Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Lieutenant Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Cairngaver: 2.7 mi
  • Stewart Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Dalzell's Hill: 4.1 mi
Attractions
Museums: 34
Nature reserves: 17
Springs: 11
Beaches: 10
  • Skippingstone Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Brompton Bay: 5.1 mi
  • Seapark Beach: 6.4 mi
  • Newtownabbey Bay (Hazelbank) Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Browns bay walk: 18.1 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Cave Hill: 10.8 mi
  • Bellevue Area of Special Scientific Interest: 11.0 mi
  • Limestone Quarry: 11.0 mi
  • Ballygalley Head: 22.0 mi
  • Spinkanee: 23.3 mi
Waterfalls: 3

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.5 miles of Ards Arts Centre. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slieve CroobSSW 213°534 m20.8 mi
DivisW 276°478 m13.0 mi
Agnew's HillNNW 332°474 m19.9 mi
SlieveniskySSW 211°446 m21.1 mi
CratlieveSW 215°429 m21.9 mi
Douglas TopNW 322°402 m23.4 mi
SlievegarranSSW 210°391 m22.5 mi
Black MountainW 274°389 m12.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2717:4818:36
June solstice04:4721:0322:04
September equinox07:0918:3719:24
December solstice08:4414:4715:59

Local time (Europe/London).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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