Holywood
Holywood is a town in the metropolitan area of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Holywood is a town in the metropolitan area of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a civil parish and townland of 306 hectares lying on the shore of Belfast Lough, between Belfast and Bangor. Holywood Exchange and Belfast City Airport are nearby.
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Getting to Holywood
- Airports
- Belfast (BFS), 24 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 100 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 126 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Holywood123 km · quickest by road, 14h 34m · £70–95
- Glasgow → Holywood169 km · quickest by road, 14h 9m · £70–95
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Holywood213 km · quickest by road, 14h 28m · £75–95
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Holywood
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 Holywood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCitylink / Ulsterbus 923 runs 2-3 times a day from Glasgow via Ayr to the Cairnryan ferry for Belfast.
- Get inThe buses don't join the ferry so you have to lump your luggage off to board, then onto the waiting bus at the other end.
- Get inHannon Coach is a competing service, and its buses with luggage do join the ferry.
- Get inFoot passengers should always look for through-tickets by bus, train and ferry.
- Get inThey are considerably cheaper than separate tickets, and they take care of the connection between city and ferry port, which can be the trickiest part of the journey.
From Wikivoyage: Belfast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Holywood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Holywood
Holywood is 7 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.