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Townland in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Whiteabbey

Whiteabbey is a townland in Newtownabbey, north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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The place

Whiteabbey is a townland in Newtownabbey, north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whiteabbey

One place 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
    Belfast Zoo

    Belfast Zoological Gardens is a zoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is in a relatively secluded location on the northeastern slope of Cavehill, overlooking Belfast's Antrim Road.

    3.4 km · zoo in Northern Ireland · 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.

Go there

Getting to Whiteabbey

Airports
Belfast (BFS), 20 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 106 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 125 km
Stations
Greenisland railway station, 3.4 km · Jordanstown railway station, 1.5 km · Whiteabbey railway station, 400 m · Monkstown railway station, 2.5 km · Mossley (NCC) railway station, 3.5 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Whiteabbey
    123 km · quickest by road, 14h 31m · £70–95
  • Glasgow → Whiteabbey
    169 km · quickest by road, 14h 5m · £70–95
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Whiteabbey
    214 km · quickest by road, 14h 24m · £75–95
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whiteabbey

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 Whiteabbey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBelfast ferry terminal is 3 miles south of Newtownabbey on A2 / M2.

From Wikivoyage: Newtownabbey, 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

    111 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    136 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    144 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    221 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    256 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whiteabbey

Whiteabbey is 9 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.