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

Whiteabbey is a townland in Newtownabbey, north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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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.
- 01Belfast 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
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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 → Whiteabbey123 km · quickest by road, 14h 31m · £70–95
- Glasgow → Whiteabbey169 km · quickest by road, 14h 5m · £70–95
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Whiteabbey214 km · quickest by road, 14h 24m · £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 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.
- 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.
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Next door to Whiteabbey
Whiteabbey is 9 km from Belfast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newtownabbeysuburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland900 m