One day in Newtownards, United Kingdom

A day through Newtownards’s best-known sights that lie close together: Strangford Castle, Portaferry Castle and Exploris. 3 stops, about 0.7 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Strangford CastleCastle · On the map
  2. Portaferry CastleCastle · 0.6 mi on from Strangford Castle · On the map
  3. ExplorisZoo or aquarium · 0.1 mi on from Portaferry Castle · On the map

3 stops, about 0.7 mi between them in straight lines.

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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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