's-Gravesloot on a map from 1901 's-Gravesloot in 2007 s-Gravesloot is a former hamlet and municipality in the

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province of

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. It was located between

Kamerik Kamerik is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden Woerden () is a city and a municipality in central Netherlands. Due to its central location between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht ...

and

Woerden Woerden () is a city and a municipality in central Netherlands. Due to its central location between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht, and the fact that it has rail and road connections to those cities, it is a popular town for commu ...

. 's-Gravesloot was a ''

heerlijkheid A ''heerlijkheid'' (a Dutch word; pl. ''heerlijkheden''; also called ''heerschap''; Latin: ''Dominium'') was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and judicial unit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries before 1800. ...

'' ( manor) owned by the province of Utrecht until 1751, when it was sold to a private owner. When the current municipal system was introduced in the Netherlands in 1812, it became part of Kamerik. When that municipality was split into three parts, 's-Gravesloot became a separate municipality again. In 1857,

Kamerik-Mijzijde Kamerik-Mijzijde, also just called Mijzijde, is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km north of the city of Woerden. It consists of a number of farms some distance west from ...

, Kamerik-Houtdijken, and 's-Gravesloot merged again, to form the new municipality of Kamerik. Kamerik and 's-Gravesloot are now part of Woerden. The municipality of 's-Gravesloot consisted of a polder with the same name, covered an area of 3.23 km², and contained the hamlet of 's-Gravesloot. It had a population of about 110.

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Former municipalities of Utrecht (province) {{Utrecht-geo-stub