Alexandra Park
Alexandra Park is a park, at a modelled elevation of 23 m. Slieve Croob stands 534 m to the south, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Grove Community Garden, a garden 0.3 miles away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 3.4 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Belfast City Council
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Causeway Coastal Route
Overlooks nearby
- The Mount · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Grove Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Peas Park Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Westland Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- City Quays Gardens: 1.0 mi
- Glenbryn Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Waterworks Park: 0.5 mi
- Northwood Linear Park: 0.5 mi
- Marrowbone Millennium Park: 0.9 mi
- Navigation Buoys Park: 1.2 mi
- Shankill Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
- McGurk's Bar bombing tombstone and commemorative plaque: 0.8 mi
- Titanic Names Wall 1: 1.1 mi
- Titanic Names Wall 2: 1.1 mi
- Shankill Bomb Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Albert Memorial Clock: 1.3 mi
- The Flying Angel: 0.9 mi
- Dividers: 1.0 mi
- Vladimir Lenin: 1.0 mi
- Rinty Monaghan: 1.0 mi
- Glass of Thrones: House Stark: 1.1 mi
- Titanic Slipway: 1.1 mi
- Titanic Belfast: 1.2 mi
- SS Nomadic: 1.2 mi
- Junction Mark: 1.2 mi
- Starboard Mark: 1.2 mi
- McArt's Fort: 2.1 mi
- Cavehill: 2.2 mi
- Squires Hill: 2.5 mi
- Collinward: 2.6 mi
- Black Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Crumlin Road Gaol: 0.7 mi
- Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum: 1.1 mi
- Northern Ireland War Memorial: 1.1 mi
- W5: 1.2 mi
- Royal Ulster Rifles Museum: 1.2 mi
- RSPB Belfast Lough: 2.4 mi
- Bog Meadows: 2.6 mi
- Lagan Meadows: 4.0 mi
- Slievenacloy Nature Reserve: 6.3 mi
- Kiltonga Nature Reserve: 8.7 mi
- Volunteers' Well: 2.0 mi
- Tobernaveen: 14.4 mi
- Spa Well: 15.0 mi
- St. Mary's Well: 17.1 mi
- Sunday Well: 17.3 mi
- Cuan Beach: 19.3 mi
- Inch Abbey Station Picnic Area: 20.9 mi
- Seaforde Picnic Site: 21.0 mi
- Clough Picnic Site: 23.1 mi
- Playrock Viewpoint: 23.5 mi
- Limestone Quarry: 1.9 mi
- Cave Hill: 2.2 mi
- Bellevue Area of Special Scientific Interest: 2.9 mi
- Ballygalley Head: 19.8 mi
- Spinkanee: 22.7 mi
- Newtownabbey Bay (Hazelbank) Beach: 3.4 mi
- Seapark Beach: 4.9 mi
- Brompton Bay: 10.5 mi
- Skippingstone Beach: 10.7 mi
- Browns bay walk: 17.5 mi
- Lisnabreeney Waterfall: 4.0 mi
- Glenoe Waterfall: 13.1 mi
- Stepping Stones: 16.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Alexandra Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slieve Croob | S 185° | 534 m | 19.3 mi |
| Divis | W 262° | 478 m | 3.5 mi |
| Agnew's Hill | N 360° | 474 m | 15.8 mi |
| Slievenisky | S 184° | 446 m | 19.9 mi |
| Slemish | NNW 340° | 437.9 m | 19.3 mi |
| Cratlieve | S 189° | 429 m | 19.9 mi |
| Douglas Top | NNW 343° | 402 m | 17.4 mi |
| Slievegarran | S 185° | 391 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:28 | 17:49 | 18:37 |
| June solstice | 04:48 | 21:04 | 22:05 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:38 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 08:45 | 14:47 | 16:00 |
Local time (Europe/London).
- Black Guillemot101 obs
- Lesser Black-backed Gull68 obs
- Black-headed Gull67 obs
- White Wagtail45 obs
- Rock Pigeon37 obs
- European Herring Gull33 obs
- Butterfly bush31 obs
- Hooded Crow29 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.
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