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Assum
Hamlet in North Holland, Netherlands

Assum

Assum is a hamlet in the municipality of Uitgeest in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

Plan a trip to Assum→From Rotterdam

The hamlet of Assum was originally an independent village but has now been absorbed by the larger Uitgeest. Assum is located between Uitgeest and Heemskerk. Due to this original independence, this place name can still be found in place name registers and, for example, the telephone directory on the internet.

How locals move

Getting around Assum the local way

  • Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
  • Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
  • Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).

From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2018-11, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

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