Mount StewartThe Stewart family's neoclassical house on the Ards Peninsula looks over Strangford Lough, and Edith, Lady Londonderry designed the gardens around it from the 1920s.
Viewpoint
Scrabo Tower
Newtownards, County Down
A stone tower finished in 1859 on top of Scrabo Hill above Newtownards, in a country park of woodland and old quarries looking over Strangford Lough.
- Where
- Newtownards, County Down
- Official site
- nidirect.gov.uk
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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