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Britsum

Britsum is a village in the municipality of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands.

Britsum
Britsum · Dominicus Johannes Bergsma
The place

Britsum is a village in the municipality of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. Britsum was built on an artificial bank (terp) running along the eastern side of the former Middelzee. The church, built around 1300, is also located on this bank. It had a population of about 910 inhabitants in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Britsum

One place 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
    Protestant church of Wyns

    The Protestant church of Wyns or Saint Vitus Church is a religious building in Wyns, Netherlands, one of the medieval churches in Friesland. The nave and quintuple closed choir date from c.

    3.3 km · church · Wikipedia

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Getting to Britsum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 55 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 125 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 170 km
  • Groningen → Britsum
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €7–10
  • Amsterdam → Britsum
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €14–20
  • Rotterdam → Britsum
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €21–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Britsum

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 Britsum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    54 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    542 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    563 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    748 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    752 km

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

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