Scrabo Tower is a 135 feet (41 m) high 19th-century lookout tower or folly that stands on Scrabo Hill near Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland...
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Newtownards (section Scrabo Tower)
is overlooked by the 100-foot (30 m) high Scrabo Tower. The tower is 41 metres high, and was erected on Scrabo Hill as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd...
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tower is mentioned in Thomas Hardy's poem "Channel Firing" (written in April 1914) as a place "far inland". Scrabo Tower, County Down "Alfred's Tower...
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rock on which Stirling Castle stands "Scrabo Hill" in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, site of the Scrabo Tower Ailsa Craig, famous for curling stone mining...
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settled Scottish Protestants there as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Scrabo Tower overlooks Newtownards and the northern end of the Ards Peninsula. Mount...
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Grand Opera House, Belfast Belfast Castle Necarne, County Fermanagh Scrabo Tower, Belfast Campbell College, Belfast Old Bushmills Distillery, County Antrim...
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Rostrevor at the base of the Mourne Mountains Portstewart Strand Scrabo Tower and Scrabo Country Park Tollymore Forest Park Cathedral of SS Patrick & Colman...
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him by the Londonderry Equestrian Statue in Durham. Frederick built Scrabo Tower near Newtownards as a monument to the memory of his father. Of the 730...
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enflamed Or Escutcheon Azure issuing in base three Representations of the Scrabo Tower Argent with windows framed and Pinnacles Or each ensigned by a Viking...
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the Barons and Marquesses of Dufferin. A similar but higher landmark, Scrabo Tower, built by the Londonderrys, stands on the next hill to the south. The...
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honeymooned there. Tollymore Forest Park between Castlewellan and Newcastle. Scrabo Tower, in Newtownards, was built as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess...
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round bows and typically lacked mullions. The style drew on tower houses and peel towers, retaining many of their external features. French Renaissance...
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Greenway provides an eco-friendly cycle path with views of Stormont and Scrabo Tower. This attracts many cyclists into the town boosting the local economy...
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Scrabo Tower, on the Ards peninsula...
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shores of Strangford Lough. This section also passes within 2 miles of Scrabo Tower. "Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996". Statutory...
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the Royal Dublin Society. Dublin Zoo's lions breed for the first time. Scrabo Tower erected above Newtownards as a memorial to Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess...
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southwards over Belfast City and Lough towards the Mourne Mountains, Scrabo Tower and Slieve Croob.[citation needed] Arthur's Seat Northern Ireland Place-Names...
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the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, which resulted in the building of the Scrabo Tower. Although his design took first place, the decision was overturned on...
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alongside his younger brother, Maurice, on farms and in the fields around Scrabo Tower, an area of natural beauty at the northern end of Strangford Lough. This...
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succeeded his father in 1854 as the 4th Marquess of Londonderry. He built Scrabo Tower as a monument to the memory of his father. In 1857 he and his wife attended...
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Nature Reserve Redburn Country Park Rostrevor Forest Rowallane Gardens Scrabo Tower Tollymore Forest Park Ballintempo Forest Belmore Forest Big Dog Forest...
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Greenway provides an eco-friendly cycle path with views of Stormont and Scrabo Tower. On the way out of Belfast, the Greenway goes through many of the old...
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it beforehand). The Tower of Trufandom, the eventual location of the Enchanted Duplicator in the story, was based on Scrabo Tower in Newtownards, near...
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and flamenco. "Taps" "Seville" "After the Harvest" "A Saucey Jig" "Scrabo Tower" "Northwest of Ju Ju" "Loco Motives" "Amazing Grace" "Pam and Johns House"...
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including Slemish in Ballymena, Tievebulliagh, Scawt Hill, Carrickarede, Scrabo and Slieve Gallion. There are several volcanic plugs in the United States...
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foundation stone of the Londonderry Monument, better known today as the Scrabo Tower. He married Catherine, the youngest daughter of Samuel Dickinson on 27...
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Cap-house (category Fortified towers by type)
Scotland flying from a flagpole mounted on the roof of its cap-house Scrabo Tower has a conical cap-house above its spiral staircase, with conical turrets...
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Scrabo Road, Newtownards, County Down, BT23 4NW School Ards B+ B HB24/11/012 Upload Photo Scrabo Tower (Londonderry Monument), Scrabo Hill, Scrabo, Newtownards...
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Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo, a new documentary on the film's visual and sound effects, an excerpt from...
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St Thomas' Church, Belfast (category Bell towers in Ireland)
ecclesiastical architecture, not only in Belfast, but in Ulster. Built of white Scrabo sandstone with finely dressed masonry round doors and windows, it is adorned...
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