Lijnden
Lijnden is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Lijnden is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies about 10 km west of Amsterdam.
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Worth seeing in and around Lijnden
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.
- 01Haarlemmertrekvaart
The Haarlemmertrekvaart [ˌhaːrlɛmərˈtrɛkfaːrt] is a canal between Amsterdam and Haarlem in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It was dug in 1631, making it the oldest tow-canal in Holland.
4 km · tow canal built in 1631 from Amsterdam to Halfweg and from Halfweg to Haarlem, Netherlands (Halfweg was an 'overtoom' where passengers needed to crossover to another 'ferry' or trekschuit) · Wikipedia - 02Dijkgraafplein
The Dijkgraafplein is a square in Amsterdam-Osdorp in the Netherlands, lying at the end of Tussen Meer. The square is named after the office of dijkgraaf in 1962.
2.5 km · square in Amsterdam, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lijnden
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 5 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 49 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 109 km
- Stations
- Halfweg-Zwanenburg railway station, 4 km
- Rotterdam → Lijnden51 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · €7–9
- Eindhoven → Lijnden113 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · €13–18
- Groningen → Lijnden155 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · €19–27
- 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 Lijnden
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 Lijnden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry from Newcastle, UK to IJmuiden, which is only about 30 minutes from Haarlem by local bus.
- Get inFrom the ferry terminal, it is a walk to Planetenweg (bus stop Zwaanstraat).
From Wikivoyage: Haarlem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Lijnden
Lijnden is 10 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Halfwegvillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands3.7 km
- Badhoevedorpvillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands2.4 km
- Osdorpneighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands3.4 km
- Boesingheliedehamlet in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands1.7 km
- Zwanenburgvillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands3.1 km
- Oud Osdorpvillage in Amsterdam, Netherlands3 km