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Oudorp

Oudorp is a neighbourhood of Alkmaar and former village in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Oudorp
Oudorp · Marcel Plaatsman
The place

Oudorp is a neighbourhood of Alkmaar and former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is located about 2 km (1 mi) east of the city centre. The village merged with Alkmaar in 1972.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oudorp

7 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
    AFAS Stadion

    AFAS Stadion is a stadium in Alkmaar, Netherlands. It is used for football matches and is the home stadium of AZ Alkmaar.

    3.1 km · stadium in Alkmaar, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Noordhollandsch Kanaal

    The Noordhollandsch Kanaal is a canal originally meant for ocean-going ships. It is located in North Holland, Netherlands.

    1.2 km · canal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alkmaarderhout

    Alkmaar Zaanstreek kmaːr ˈzaːnstreːk]), better known internationally as AZ Alkmaar, or simply and most commonly as AZ in the Netherlands, is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaan district. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football.

    2.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Waag

    The Waag building is a National monument listed building on the Waagplein in Alkmaar in the Netherlands. On this square Waagplein every Friday from April till the second week of September, the famous cheese market is held.

    1.6 km · listed building in Netherlands, site of annual cheese market · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk

    Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk is a Reformed Protestant church in Alkmaar, Netherlands.

    2 km · church in Alkmaar · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sportpaleis Alkmaar

    The Sportpaleis Alkmaar is a velodrome and multisport indoor arena in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. The original velodrome, which was built in 1964 and made of concrete, was renovated in 2003.

    3.9 km · velodrome in Alkmaar, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar

    Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is a city museum located in the center of Alkmaar on the Canadaplein. The museum is devoted to presenting and preserving the cultural history of Alkmaar and the surrounding region.

    2 km · municipal museum of Alkmaar, North Holland, 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.

Go there

Getting to Oudorp

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 36 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 79 km · Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 133 km
Stations
Alkmaar railway station, 2.3 km · Alkmaar Noord railway station, 1.3 km
  • Rotterdam → Oudorp
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €10–14
  • Groningen → Oudorp
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €17–24
  • Eindhoven → Oudorp
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · €16–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oudorp

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can get to visit Alkmaar from the UK by using a ferry to Holland.
  • Get inThere are a number of ferry companies based in the North East of England whose ports in Holland are a short drive away from Alkmaar, which also offer a range of mini-cruises.
  • Get inThis section begins by crossing on the ferry (Buiksloterwegveer), behind Amsterdam Centraal Station.

From Wikivoyage: Alkmaar, 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

    73 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    472 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    638 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    667 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    723 km

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

Around it

Next door to Oudorp

Oudorp is 30 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Alkmaarmunicipality in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands2 km
  • Stompetorenvillage in North Holland, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Sint Pancrasvillage in Dijk en Waard, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Butterhuizenhuman settlement3.4 km