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North Down Museum, a museum
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North Down Museum, a museum
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North Down Museum, a museum
No machine-readable author provided. Notafly assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
North Down Museum, a museum
No machine-readable author provided. Notafly assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
North Down Museum, a museum
No machine-readable author provided. Notafly assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
North Down Museum, a museum
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North Down Museum is a museum, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Divis stands 478 m to the west-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Bobbio, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 6.5 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

museum in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Wikidata Q110521450, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates54.65592, -5.66881

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
  • Castle Park: 0.1 mi
  • Ward Park: 0.4 mi
  • Clandeboye Play Park: 0.5 mi
  • Ballyholme Green: 0.9 mi
  • Connor Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Gardens: 59
  • Walled Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Garden of Reflection: 4.4 mi
  • Walled Garden: 6.0 mi
  • Millisle Community Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Holocaust Memorial: 6.9 mi
Peaks: 53
  • Irish Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Lieutenant Hill: 3.5 mi
  • Cairngaver: 4.2 mi
  • Barnagh Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Scrabo Hill: 5.6 mi
Museums: 34
Nature reserves: 16
Springs: 10
Beaches: 7
  • Skippingstone Beach: 0.8 mi
  • Brompton Bay: 1.1 mi
  • Seapark Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Newtownabbey Bay (Hazelbank) Beach: 9.2 mi
  • Browns bay walk: 14.1 mi
Picnic sites: 6
Cliffs: 4
  • Bellevue Area of Special Scientific Interest: 11.1 mi
  • Cave Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Limestone Quarry: 11.7 mi
  • Ballygalley Head: 18.2 mi
Waterfalls: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of North Down Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
DivisWSW 258°478 m14.3 mi
Agnew's HillNW 321°474 m16.9 mi
SlemishNW 313°437.9 m23.1 mi
Douglas TopNW 312°402 m21.0 mi
Black MountainWSW 255°389 m13.7 mi
Black HillNNW 331°381 m21.4 mi
Squires HillW 265°374 m12.5 mi
Scawt HillNNW 331°370 m20.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2617:4818:36
June solstice04:4621:0322:04
September equinox07:0818:3719:24
December solstice08:4414:4615:59

Local time (Europe/London).

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/957260221

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