Millisle

9°COvercast

• Today: 13° / 8° · 88% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 9° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 08:08Sunset 18:03

9h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

20US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland

23 food businesses within 2 miles

• 20 rated 4–5 ★ (16 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

• Cheapest petrol: 159.7p · Asda (10.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.7p · Asda (10.8 km)

2 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: HRL Carrowdore (3.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Alex Easton

Independent

North Down

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• DUP 14
• Alli 12
• UUP 8
• SDLP 1
• Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

6,005 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

2.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,420 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.0
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in North Down:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases287 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills121 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately118 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth112 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings88 local signatures · 11,850 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Millisle · 0.2 km

  Millisle or Mill Isle is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) south of Donaghadee town centre. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise and Ballycope…

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  Ballycopeland Windmill · 1.7 km

  Ballycopeland Windmill is a functioning windmill located one mile west of Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is managed by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities and is open to th…

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  Donaghadee · 2.6 km

  Donaghadee is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the northeast coast of the Ards Peninsula, about 18 miles (29 km) east of Belfast and about six miles (10 km) south east of Bangor. It is in the…

• Millisle Road Halt railway station · 3.2 km

  Millisle Road Halt railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Donaghadee in Northern Ireland.

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  Strangford College · 3.3 km

  Strangford College, also known as Strangford Integrated College, is a school in Carrowdore, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is an integrated co-educational secondary school with a grammar stream with ar…

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  RAF Millisle · 3.6 km

  Royal Air Force Millisle or more commonly RAF Millisle is a former Royal Air Force station located in Millisle, County Down, Northern Ireland. Unlike many wartime airfields which were cancelled during planning stages,…

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