Lisburn
Lisburn is a cathedral city in Northern Ireland.
Lisburn is a cathedral city in Northern Ireland. It is 8 mi (13 km) southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with the arrival of French Huguenots in the 18th century, the town developed as a global centre of the linen industry.
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Things to do
Omniplex Cinema is on the leisure park southwest side of town. Hilden Brewery is now primarily an events venue and doesn't offer tours. It's on Mill St, Hilden.
- 01Lagan Valley Island
Contains Island Hall Theatre, the smaller Studio Theatre, and Island Arts Centre, plus conference and events facilities.
- 02Down Royal Racecourse
This holds mostly National Hunt (jumps and chases) meetings in November, but the Ulster Derby is a flat-race in June.
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Where to eat
Cardan Bar & Grill, 41 Railway St BT28 1XP (next to railway station),. Sun-Thu noon-11PM, Fri Sat noon-1AM. Reliable restaurant, steaks are the specialty. Pizzarellys is by the railway station at
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Getting to Lisburn
- Airports
- Belfast (BFS), 20 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 103 km · Dublin (DUB), 121 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Lisburn141 km · quickest by road, 14h 15m · £70–95
- Glasgow → Lisburn187 km · quickest by road, 13h 50m · £70–95
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Lisburn232 km · quickest by road, 14h 9m · £70–95
- 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 Lisburn
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 Lisburn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundNational Cycleway 9 runs mostly on-road from Belfast to Lisburn, Craigavon and Portadown then off-road to Scarva and Newry, with other routes branching off across Armagh and Tyrone.
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If you know how people move in Lisburn – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Lisburn
Lisburn is 12 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.