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Arbory

Arbory is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.

Arbory
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The place

Arbory is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located on the south of the island in the sheading of Rushen. Settlements in the parish include Ballabeg, Colby and Ronague. As of the 2021census, its population stood at 1,899 individuals. The parish features a mix of coastal plains, and highlands, with an economy based on agriculture, and tourism.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Arbory

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Balladoole

    Chapel Hill, Balladoole is a significant historical and archaeological site in Arbory on the Isle of Man. The site is a short distance from Castletown in the south of the Island.

    3.4 km · historic monument site on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cronk ny Arrey Laa

    Cronk ny Arrey Laa is a hill in the south west of the Isle of Man. It may be confused with a hill of a similar name in the parish of Jurby, further north along the west coast of the island.

    3.6 km · 439m high hill on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Arbory

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 5 km · Belfast (BFS), 116 km · Dublin (DUB), 128 km
Stations
Ballabeg (IoMR) railway station, 2.3 km · Colby railway station, 1.6 km · Level railway station, 2.6 km
  • Belfast → Arbory
    97 km · quickest by ferry, 6h 49m · £104–221
  • Dublin → Arbory
    134 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 59m · €60–142
  • Liverpool → Arbory
    137 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 49m · £59–141
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Arbory

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arbory. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPort St Mary is 13 miles southwest of Douglas the capital and ferry port, and 4 miles west of Ronaldsway Airport ().

From Wikivoyage: Port St Mary, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    166 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    201 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    219 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    304 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    326 km

If you know how people move in Arbory – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Arbory

  • Malewparish of the Isle of Man3.8 km
  • Colbyvillage on the Isle of Man1.3 km
  • Ballabegvillage in Arbory, Isle of Man1.3 km
  • Ronaguehamlet on the Isle of Man1.4 km
  • Ballakilphericvillage on the Isle of Man1.5 km