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Downhill Strand

#5247 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Downhill Strand

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Downhill Strand is a beach in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. ()

Coordinates: 55°10'4"N, 6°52'20"W

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Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom

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Downhill Strand – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Downhill House, Hezlett House, Portstewart Strand, Binevenagh.

2.4 miE
Ruins
Downhill House
63 min walk • Downhill House was a mansion built in the late 18th century for Frederick, 4th Earl of Bristol and Lord Bishop of Derry, at Downhill, County Londonderry. Much of the building was destroyed by fire in 1851 before being rebuilt in the 1870s. It fell into disrepair after the Second World War.
3.4 miE
Historical place, History museum, Museum
Hezlett House, Castlerock
87 min walk • Hezlett House is a 17th-century thatched cottage located in Castlerock, County Londonderry. Built around 1691, it is one of the oldest buildings still in use anywhere in Ulster.
5 miE
Beach
Portstewart Strand, Portstewart
128 min walk • Portstewart Strand is a sandy, two-mile long beach in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on the northern Atlantic Ocean coast of the island of Ireland.
4.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Binevenagh, Limavady
113 min walk • Binevenagh is a mountain in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It marks the western extent of the Antrim Plateau formed around 60 million years ago by molten lava.
~1390 ftW
Beach
Benone, Limavady
7 min walk • Benone is a popular tourist destination in the Causeway Coast and Glens district, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Benone has several caravan sites, such as Golden Sands, Deighans' and a leisure complex with excellent facilities, including a 9-hole golf course and numerous tennis courts.
3.6 miW
Beach
Magilligan
93 min walk • Magilligan is a peninsula that lies in the northwest of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, at the entrance to Lough Foyle, within Causeway Coast and Glens district. It is an extensive 79,000-acre coastal site, part British army firing range, part nature reserve and is home to the HM Prison Magilligan.
3.5 miSW
Village
Bellarena
91 min walk • Bellarena north of Limavady. The land was settled in the mid-17th century by a Northamptonshire gentleman, William Gage, who bought the lease of the estate – then called Ballymargy from the Irish meaning "town of the market" – from the Lord Bishop of Derry.