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

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.
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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.
- 01Utrechtse 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 - 02Amerongen 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 - 03Andrieskerk
The Andrieskerk is a nowadays Protestant church in the Dutch village of Amerongen.
2.8 km · church building in Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Leersum
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 56 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 63 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 67 km
- Amsterdam → Leersum54 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Leersum64 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €83–142
- Rotterdam → Leersum66 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · €8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Leersum
Leersum is 23 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Overbergfarm village in the Netherlands5 km
- Elstvillage in the province of Utrecht, The Netherlands5.6 km
- Darthuizenhuman settlement in the Netherlands2.5 km