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Gauw

Gauw is a small village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Gauw
Gauw · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Gauw is a small village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 385 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gauw

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.

  1. 01
    Protestant church of Dearsum

    The Protestant Church of Dearsum or Saint Nicholas church is a religious building in Dearsum, Netherlands, one of medieval churches in Friesland. It is a Romanesque church from c.

    3.2 km · church · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Protestant church of Boazum

    The Protestant church of Boazum or Saint Martin's church is a medieval religious building in Boazum, Friesland, Netherlands. It is a late 12th century Romanesque church with inner walls of brick and outer walls of tuffstone with a 13th-century tower built out of yellow and red brick.

    3.7 km · church · 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 Gauw

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 58 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 105 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 150 km
Stations
Sneek Noord railway station, 3.9 km
  • Groningen → Gauw
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → Gauw
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €13–18
  • Rotterdam → Gauw
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €20–28
  • 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 Gauw

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is a ferry running from Enkhuizen in Noord Holland to Stavoren.
  • Get inIn the summer the ferry runs up to three times daily, but in April and October not as frequent.

From Wikivoyage: Friesland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    54 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    549 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    559 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    738 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    756 km

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

Around it

Next door to Gauw

  • Goëngavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands1.4 km
  • Offingawiervillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.1 km
  • Sibrandabuorrenvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands1.3 km
  • Tersoalvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.5 km
  • Dearsumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.2 km
  • Loëngavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.4 km