Oud-Kamerik is a hamlet in the
Dutch province of
Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of
Woerden, and lies about 6 km northwest of the city of Woerden.
It consists of a number of farms in the
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 ...
Kamerik-Teylingens, east of the villages of
Kamerik and
Kanis
Kanis is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km north of Woerden.
The hamlet was first mentioned between 1839 and 1859 as "de Verkeerde Kanis herbg", and was the name of a ...
. The hamlet was first mentioned in 1296 as Oldecamerike. It uses oud (old) to distinguish from
Kamerik which has been named after
Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, regio ...
in France. It is not a statistical entity,
and the postal authorities have placed it under Kamerik.
Oud-Kamerik has no place name signs. In 1840, it was home to 206 people. Nowadays, it consists of about 60 houses.
References
Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden
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