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Driehuis

Driehuis is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland; part of the municipality of Velsen, it lies about 8 km north of Haarlem and 15 km west-northwest of Amsterdam.

Driehuis
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The place

Driehuis is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland; part of the municipality of Velsen, it lies about 8 km north of Haarlem and 15 km west-northwest of Amsterdam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Driehuis

7 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.

    900 m · football stadium in Velsen-Zuid, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle Brederode

    Brederode Castle, also called the Ruins of Brederode, is located near Santpoort-Zuid. The castle was founded in the second half of the 13th century by William I van Brederode.

    2.6 km · castle ruins near Haarlem, NL · 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.

    2.3 km · Roman fort in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden

    The hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder. It was built in 1878 by D.A. Schretlen & Co, a company in Leiden.

    4 km · lighthouse in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.8 km · lock in the North Sea Canal in Velsen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Landhuis Duin en Kruidberg

    Duin en Kruidberg is a stately home in Santpoort, near Haarlem, the Netherlands. Kruidberg started as a summer house for rich merchants from Amsterdam, then it became a hunting lodge of the prince of Orange, the future king-stadholder, William III.

    1.6 km · building in Velsen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    IJmuider Zee- en Havenmuseum

    The IJmuider Zee- en Havenmuseum is a museum located at the start of the Vissershaven in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, dedicated to promoting interest and conserving the fishing and shipping cultural heritage of IJmuiden and the North Sea Canal.

    2.8 km · museum in IJmuiden, the Netherlands · 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 Driehuis

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 18 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 122 km
Stations
Driehuis railway station, 500 m · Santpoort Noord railway station, 1.5 km · Santpoort Zuid railway station, 3.1 km · Beverwijk railway station, 3.7 km · IJmuiden Heliport, 3.8 km
  • Rotterdam → Driehuis
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €8–11
  • Eindhoven → Driehuis
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €14–20
  • Groningen → Driehuis
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €20–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Driehuis

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry from Newcastle, UK to IJmuiden, which is only about 30 minutes from Haarlem by local bus.
  • Get inFrom the ferry terminal, it is a walk to Planetenweg (bus stop Zwaanstraat).

From Wikivoyage: Haarlem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    455 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    655 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    658 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    726 km

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

Around it

Next door to Driehuis

Driehuis is 19 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.