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Grou

Grou is a town in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and had around 5655 citizens in January 2017.

Grou
Grou · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Grou is a town in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and had around 5655 citizens in January 2017. Since 2014 Grou is part of the municipality of Leeuwarden.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grou

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
    Prinses Margrietkanaal

    The Prinses Margriet Canal is a canal in Friesland, Netherlands. It is now part of the Lemmer–Delfzijl Waterway, that forms an inland connection between Rotterdam and northern Germany.

    2.6 km · canal in Friesland, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Protestant church of Grou

    The Protestant church of Grou or Saint Peter's church is a religious building in Grou, Netherlands, one of the many medieval churches in Friesland. The Romanesque church was built in the first half of the 13th century out of tuffstone.

    800 m · church building in Boarnsterhim, 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 Grou

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 50 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 114 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 158 km
Stations
Grou-Jirnsum railway station, 1.3 km
  • Groningen → Grou
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · €7–10
  • Amsterdam → Grou
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €14–20
  • Rotterdam → Grou
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · €21–29
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grou

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 Grou. 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

    60 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    550 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    558 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    747 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    761 km

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

Around it

Next door to Grou

  • Jirnsumvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands3.5 km
  • Friensvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands2.1 km
  • Reduzumvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands3.6 km
  • Eagumvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Idaerdvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands2.3 km