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Beverwijk

Beverwijk is an industrial port city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Beverwijk
Beverwijk · Michielverbeek
The place

Beverwijk is an industrial port city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast. A railway tunnel and two motorway tunnels cross the canal between Beverwijk and the nearby city of Haarlem on the south side of the canal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Beverwijk

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    BUKO Stadion

    Sportpark Schoonenberg k ˈsxoːnəbɛrx]), branded as BUKO Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Eredivisie club Telstar and Eredivisie Vrouwen club Telstar. It is located in Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands.

    3.3 km · football stadium in Velsen-Zuid, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Assumburg

    Slot Assumburg is a castle in the east of Heemskerk in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

    3.4 km · castle in Heemskerk · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Flevum

    Flevum was a castrum and port of the Romans in Frisia, built when emperor Augustus wanted to conquer the German populated territories between the Rhine river and the Elbe river.

    3.7 km · Roman fort in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    IJmuiden sea lock

    The IJmuiden sea lock serving Port of Amsterdam via the North Sea Canal is the largest lock in the world when considering dimensions. The lock, situated in IJmuiden in the municipality of Velsen, was opened on 26 January 2022 in the presence of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

    3.3 km · lock in the North Sea Canal in Velsen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dorpskerk

    The Dorpskerk is a Protestant church building at Kerkplein 1 in the centre of the Dutch village of Heemskerk. Its tower is 13th-15th century whilst the rest of the building dates to 1628-1629.

    3.3 km · church building in Heemskerk · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Beverwijk

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 21 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 60 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 125 km
Stations
Heemskerk railway station, 2.8 km · Beverwijk railway station, 700 m
  • Rotterdam → Beverwijk
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · €8–11
  • Eindhoven → Beverwijk
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · €14–20
  • Groningen → Beverwijk
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €19–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Beverwijk

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Beverwijk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
  • Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
  • Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).

From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2018-11.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    457 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    655 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    656 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    725 km

If you know how people move in Beverwijk – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Beverwijk

Beverwijk is 20 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Velsenmunicipality in the Netherlands2.9 km
  • Heemskerktown and municipality in North Holland, the Netherlands3.4 km
  • IJmuidentown in Velsen, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Wijk aan Zeevillage in Beverwijk, Netherlands4 km
  • Velsen-Noordvillage in Velsen, Netherlands1.3 km
  • Velsen-Zuidvillage in Velsen, Netherlands2.6 km