Millisle

13°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 15° / 11° · 37% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:59

13h 19m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · North Down Holywood A2, United Kingdom

24 food businesses within 2 miles

• 21 rated 4–5 ★ (17 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

• Cheapest petrol: 152.7p · Asda (11.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 172.7p · 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)

5,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2.4% 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:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s348 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership306 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases283 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office227 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test144 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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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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