Briltil
Briltil is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, founded around 1600.
Briltil is a village in the municipality of Westerkwartier in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, founded around 1600. The name of the village comes from a drawbridge over the Hoendiep to the region of the Bril northwest of the bridge. As of 2021, Briltil had a population of 490. Since about 2004, the village has consisted of a new housing estate on the east side of the Hoendiep and a small number of historic buildings and a marina on the west side. The village of Zuidhorn is right next to Briltil.
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Worth seeing in and around Briltil
2 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.
- 01Van Starkenborgh canal
The Van Starkenborgh Canal is a canal in Groningen that connects the Prinses Margriet Canal with the Eems Canal. The canal is suitable for CEMT-Class Va, and is part of the Lemmer–Delfzijl Waterway.
3.4 km · canal in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Hoendiep
The Hoendiep is a canal in the Dutch province of Groningen, located between the city of Groningen and Zuidhorn. Before 1949, the section of the Van Starkenborgh Canal from Zuidhorn to the Frisian border was also called Hoendiep.
1.4 km · canal in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Briltil
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 19 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 151 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 151 km
- Stations
- Zuidhorn railway station, 1.3 km
- Amsterdam → Briltil140 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · €18–25
- Rotterdam → Briltil195 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €24–33
- Eindhoven → Briltil210 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · €26–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Briltil
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 Briltil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextCatch a bus to Lauwersoog, only to hop on a ferry to the island Schiermonnikoog.
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Next door to Briltil
- Westerkwartiermunicipality in the Netherlands, province of Groningen3.1 km
- Zuidhornvillage in Westerkwartier, Netherlands800 m
- Niekerkvillage in Westerkwartier, the Netherlands3.2 km
- Noordhornvillage in Westerkwartier, Netherlands2.3 km
- Enumatilvillage in Westerkwartier, Netherlands3.2 km