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Towns of Down
Newtownards —County Down
Newtownards town sits in a region known as the Ards, an area of astonishing beauty and diversity, which has evolved through the natural forces of wind, water and ice, as well as through the activity of humans. Located at the northern end of Strangford Lough, ten miles east of Belfast, Newtownards is the largest town in the Ards region and is a busy manufacturing and commercial centre.




