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Purmerland

Purmerland is a village of 395 in the municipality of Landsmeer, North Holland, the Netherlands.

Purmerland
Purmerland · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Purmerland is a village of 395 in the municipality of Landsmeer, North Holland, the Netherlands. It is located just north of Den Ilp and just south of the housing estate of Weidevenne, part of the city of Purmerend. It is directly connected to both of these as Purmerland, like Den Ilp and Landsmeer is mainly characterised by ribbon building along the main road. Purmerland was part of the Free and high Lordship of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Purmerland

One place 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
    Melkwegbrug, Purmerend

    The Milky Way Bridge, or Melkwegbrug, is a pedestrian/cycling bridge in Purmerend, Netherlands. It was designed by NEXT Architects and opened in 2006.

    2.8 km · bridge in Purmerend, 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 Purmerland

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 23 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 68 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 119 km
Stations
Purmerend Weidevenne railway station, 1.3 km · Purmerend railway station, 2.6 km · Purmerend Overwhere railway station, 3.9 km
  • Rotterdam → Purmerland
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · €9–13
  • Eindhoven → Purmerland
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €14–19
  • Groningen → Purmerland
    137 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · €19–26
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Purmerland

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundBikes can be hired at the bike shop near the Museum De Speeltoren or from Zag Zag (see below.) Canoes can also be hired from Zag Zag (see below).

From Wikivoyage: Monnickendam, 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

    88 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    475 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    640 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    675 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    741 km

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

Around it

Next door to Purmerland

Purmerland is 13 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.