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Jelsum

Jelsum is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Jelsum
Jelsum · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Jelsum is a village in Leeuwarden municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 195 in January 2017. The stins Dekemastate is located in Jelsum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jelsum

10 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
    Cambuur Stadion

    Football stadium

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oldehove

    Iconic leaning church tower in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Fryske Akademy

    Research institute

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Princessehof Ceramics Museum

    Museum for ceramics in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Grote of Jacobijnerkerk

    Church building in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kooi Stadion

    Football stadium in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fries Museum

    Museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Saint Boniface church, Leeuwarden

    Neogothic church in Leeuwarden, Netherlands

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Protestant church of Wyns

    Church

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

    Vocational university

    2.8 km · 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.

Go there

Getting to Jelsum

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 54 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 124 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 169 km
  • Groningen → Jelsum
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · €7–10
  • Amsterdam → Jelsum
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · €14–20
  • Rotterdam → Jelsum
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · €21–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jelsum

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 Jelsum. 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

    543 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    562 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    747 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    752 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jelsum

  • Leeuwardencapital city of Friesland, the Netherlands3.8 km
  • Stiensvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Britsumvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands2 km
  • Koarnjumvillage in Leeuwarden, Netherlands1.1 km
  • Wynsvillage in Tytsjerksteradiel, Netherlands3.7 km
  • Snakkerburenhamlet in Leeuwarden, Netherlands2.3 km