Kamerik-Houtdijken is a former municipality in the
Dutch province of
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...
. It existed from 1818 to 1857, after which it merged with
's-Gravesloot 's-Gravesloot on a map from 1901
's-Gravesloot in 2007
s-Gravesloot is a former hamlet and municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It was located between Kamerik and Woerden.
's-Gravesloot was a ''heerlijkheid'' ( manor) owned by the provi ...
,
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 ...
, and
Teckop
Teckop is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 6 km northeast of Woerden.
Teckop was a separate municipality from 1817 to 1857, when it was merged with Kamerik.
Teckop is not ...
, to form the new municipality of
Kamerik.
[Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ]
During that time, it had about 620 inhabitants, in three
polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed
# Flood plains s ...
s: Kamerik-Teylingens, Groot-Houtdijk, and Klein-Houtdijk. This included the village of
Oud-Kamerik, the hamlet
Houtdijken, and half of the village of Kamerik.
References
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Former municipalities of Utrecht (province)
1818 establishments in the Netherlands