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Leersum

Leersum is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Dutch province of Utrecht.

Leersum
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The place

Leersum is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It lies about 7 km east of Doorn and 9 km west of Veenendaal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Leersum

3 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
    Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park

    Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park is a national park in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It covers the southern part of the Utrecht Hill Ridge.

    1.8 km · national park in the Dutch province of Utrecht · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Amerongen Castle

    Amerongen Castle was built between 1674 and 1680, on the site of a medieval castle that had been burned down by the French in 1673. The gardens still contain historic elements such as a conservatory dating from the 1890s.

    2.9 km · castle in Amerongen, province of Utrecht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Andrieskerk

    The Andrieskerk is a nowadays Protestant church in the Dutch village of Amerongen.

    2.8 km · church building in Utrechtse Heuvelrug, 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 Leersum

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 63 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 67 km
  • Amsterdam → Leersum
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €7–10
  • Eindhoven → Leersum
    64 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €83–142
  • Rotterdam → Leersum
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Leersum

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThis will lead you onto the N229, which will get you directly into the city after crossing the Nederrijn river via a small ferry which runs the year round from 06:30-22:30, and charges a mere €0.50 for a single transit across the river.

From Wikivoyage: Wijk bij Duurstede, 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

    143 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    490 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    652 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    688 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    704 km

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

Around it

Next door to Leersum

Leersum is 23 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Utrechtse Heuvelrugmunicipality in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands3.1 km
  • Maarsbergenfarm village in the Netherlands4.9 km
  • Eck en Wielvillage in Buren, Netherlands5.6 km
  • Overbergfarm village in the Netherlands5 km
  • Elstvillage in the province of Utrecht, The Netherlands5.6 km
  • Darthuizenhuman settlement in the Netherlands2.5 km