Stranocum
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Stranocum (Template:Irish derived place name)[1][2] is a small village and townland in north County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The villages of Dervock and Armoy are nearby and the town of Ballymoney is about Script error: No such module "convert". away. It had a population of 311 people in the 2021 Census.[3] (2011 Census: 297 people)
The village is west of the River Bush and is mostly on the gentle hill down to the river. Although mainly a commuter village it does have some services. These include a supermarket and petrol station, a vehicle service garage, animal feeds mill, trout farm, Bushvalley Primary School and a park.
Transport
Stranocum railway station opened on 18 October 1880, shut for goods traffic on 24 March 1924, and shut altogether on 3 July 1950.[4] It was on the Ballycastle Railway, a narrow gauge railway that ran for Script error: No such module "convert". between Ballycastle and Ballymoney. This was part of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), later Northern Counties Committee (NCC), main line to Londonderry.[5]
Notable people
- Archibald Hutcheson (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–1740), MP for Hastings 1713–1727
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_localities_in_Northern_Ireland_by_population
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