Portstewart

Also known as Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Portstewart, County Londonderry

Portstewart is a small seaside town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 7,854 people in the 2021 United Kingdom census. It is a seaside resort, neighbouring both Coleraine in County Londonderry and Portrush in County Antrim. Its harbour and scenic coastal paths form an Atlantic promenade leading to a two-mile beach (Portstewart Strand), popular with holidaymakers in summer and surfers year-round. The town is located within the Barony of the North East Liberties of Coleraine.

Key facts

UK place.official_name: Portstewart
UK place.irish_name: Port Stíobhaird
UK place.static_image_name: The Promenade at Portstewart - geograph.org.uk - 1322701.jpg
UK place.map_type: Northern Ireland
UK place.population: 7,854
UK place.population_ref: (2021)
UK place.unitary_northern_ireland: Causeway Coast and Glens
UK place.lieutenancy_northern_ireland: County Londonderry
UK place.constituency_ni_assembly: East Londonderry
UK place.constituency_westminster: East Londonderry
UK place.country: Northern Ireland
UK place.post_town: PORTSTEWART
UK place.postcode_area: BT
UK place.postcode_district: BT55
UK place.dial_code: 028

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: seaside resort
Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Derry
Population: 7854
Time zone: UTC±00:00
Image: The Promenade at Portstewart - geograph.org.uk - 1322701.jpg
Dialing code: 028

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historic county: County Londonderry
native label: Port Stíobhaird
Commons category: Portstewart
postal code: BT55

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==Profile== Portstewart was a popular holiday destination for Victorian middle-class families. Its long, crescent-shaped seafront promenade is sheltered by rocky headlands. It is a reasonably prosperous town. Most of the town is contained in the Strand electoral ward and this is one of the most affluent areas in Northern Ireland. In a deprivation index of electoral wards in Northern Ireland the Strand Ward in the town was ranked 570th out of the 582 wards.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portstewart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.