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Scrabo Country Park, 203A Scrabo Road, Newtownards BT23 4SJ
Tel: 028 91811491
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Website:www.ni-environment.gov.uk
Scrabo Tower is easily one of the areas most recognisable landmarks, situated at the head of Strangford Lough overlooking the old Market Town of Newtownards
Perched high above Newtownards on Scrabo Hill, this imposing edifice was built in 1857 as a memorial to the Third Marquis of Londonderry. The tower stands in Scrabo Country Park with Woodland walks and parkland. A climb of 122 steps will take visitors to the open viewing level which gives spectacular views across Strangford Lough, The Mourne Mountains, Belfast and beyond to Scotland. On a clear day the views from this monument are astounding.
what a beautiful place xx
My friends took me to see the tower. There is very little information about why and who built the tower. The local people told us several different stories. The sign at the car park was just as vague. The views were awesome without climbing the 122 steps and you can see a long way without going up the tower, though the climb to the tower can be a challenge. There are picnic tables to rest at along the way. A "must see" in Northern Ireland.
I grew up under(quite literterly) Scrabo Tower, in the West Winds Estate. I cannot say what it might be like today but the one thing I can say or sure the landscape I had the priveledge to grow up in will stay with me forever. I live in England and have done now for 25 years, however have never in my travels to some wonderful places arond the world seen again the beauty of such a wonderful place, just nowhere I have been compares to Ards.
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