Village in Friesland, Netherlands

Britsum

Britsum is a village in the municipality of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands.

Every way there

Groningen → Britsum
52 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €7–10
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Amsterdam → Britsum
115 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €14–20
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Rotterdam → Britsum
172 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €21–30
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Britsum, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Britsum has

YScheduled flightsGroningen (GRQ), 55 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 3 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesWarten–Alde Feanen, 14 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Leeuwarden, 6 km.

53.250°, 5.783°

Britsum was built on an artificial bank (terp) running along the eastern side of the former Middelzee. The church, built around 1300, is also located on this bank. It had a population of about 910 inhabitants in January 2017.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dominicus Johannes Bergsma (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.