Ballure, Isle of Man
Ballure is a small hamlet about 0.75 mile southeast of Ramsey on the Isle of Man.
Ballure is a small hamlet about 0.75 mile southeast of Ramsey on the Isle of Man. A stop on the Manx Electric Railway which runs through it is the Ballure Halt station. The latter lies just to the south of the boundary of Ramsey, and thus lies in the ward of Maughold within the current administrative parish of Garff.
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Worth seeing in and around Ballure, Isle of Man
8 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.
- 01Guthrie's Memorial
Guthrie's Memorial is a S-bend corner between the 26 and 27 mile road-side markers on the primary A18 Snaefell mountain road, part of the Snaefell Mountain Course known mainly for motorcycle racing, situated in the Isle of Man parish of Lezayre.
3 km · historic site · Wikipedia - 02Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church
The Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church is the name given to a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church in the Isle of Man and is located in Dale Street, in Ramsey the second largest town in the Isle of Man, a dependency of the British Crown. The church follows the Roman or Latin rite and is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, based in the United Kingdom.
800 m · church in Ramsey, Isle of Man · Wikipedia - 03Gooseneck, Isle of Man
Gooseneck, Isle of Man, is an acute uphill right-bend on the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the TT motorcycle races between the 25th and 26th Milestone racing road-side markers, on the 37-mile circuitous-course, measured from the startline at the TT Grandstand. It is situated on the Snaefell Mountain Road, designated A18, a main two-way thoroughfare from Ramsey to Douglas with an adjacent side-road junction for the minor D28 Hibernia Road, in the parish of Maughold in the Isle of Man.
1.2 km · historic site · Wikipedia - 04Queen's Pier Tramway
Queen's Pier, Ramsey is 2,241 feet long and was built for the Isle of Man Harbour Board for the sum of £40,752 by Head Wrightson of Stockton-on-Tees, England. The designer was Sir John Coode, who later became president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
500 m · pier on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia - 05Ramsey Harbour Swing Bridge
The Ramsey Harbour Swing Bridge is located on the Isle of Man and links the town centre in Ramsey with the Mooragh Promenade.
1 km · bridge in Ramsey, Isle of Man · Wikipedia - 06St Paul's, Ramsey
St. Paul's is a church in Ramsey designed by Thomas Brine and consecrated in 1822.
800 m · church in Ramsey, Isle of Man · Wikipedia - 07Ramsey Town Hall and Library
Ramsey Town Hall is a municipal building on Parliament Street, Ramsey, Isle of Man. It accommodates a public library as well as the offices and meeting place of the Ramsey Town Commissioners.
1.2 km · public library on the Isle of Man · Wikipedia - 08The Albert Tower
The Albert Tower on the Isle of Man is a historic monument which is one of Isle of Man's Registered Buildings. It was registered on 27 January 2003 as number 214.
400 m · historic monument · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ballure, Isle of Man
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 30 km · Belfast (BFS), 125 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 133 km
- Stations
- Belle Vue Halt, 1 km · Ramsey railway station, 1.1 km · Ramsey (Plaza) tram station, 800 m · Ballaglass Glen Halt, 3.9 km · Cornaa railway station, 3.7 km
- Belfast → Ballure, Isle of Man105 km · quickest by ferry, 7h 4m · £114–233
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ballure, Isle of Man132 km · quickest by road, 9h 55m · £37–49
- Liverpool → Ballure, Isle of Man136 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 4m · £68–153
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ballure, Isle of Man
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 Ballure, Isle of Man. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe quickest driving route from Douglas (the capital and ferry port) is by A18, 15 miles over the shoulder of Snaefell.
From Wikivoyage: Ramsey (Isle of Man), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Ballure, Isle of Man
- Ramseytown on the Isle of Man1 km
- Lezayreparish on the Isle of Man3 km
- Port e Vullenvillage in the Isle of Man1.8 km
- Glen Auldynvalley and village on the Isle of Man3.3 km