Millisle is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, lying on the Ards Peninsula, about 3 miles south of Donaghadee. It had a population of 1,800 in the 2001 Census. Described in County Down.com as an "unpretentious bucket-and-spade resort of fish-and-chip shops and acres of caravan sites".

History

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As Nazi abuse of the Jews increased, a committee organised the Kindertransport. About ten thousand unaccompanied children aged between three and seventeen from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, were permitted entry into Britain without visas. Some of these children were sent to Northern Ireland. Many of them were looked after by foster parents but others went to the Millisle Refugee Farm (Magill’s farm, on the Woburn Road) which took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.

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