Scrabo Tower
Scrabo Tower, built-in 1857 and dramatically perched above the market town, the tower was built as a memorial to the Third Marquis of Londonderry.
The tower stands in Scrabo Country Park surrounded by beautiful woodland walks and parkland. A climb of 122 steps will take visitors to the open viewing level which gives spectacular views across Strangford Lough, the Mourne Mountains, Belfast and beyond to Scotland.
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Scrabo Tower, Newtownards, Ards Peninsula, Down , United Kingdom
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