Spoelwijkschedijk

When you walk over the Spoelwijksedijk and look to the right, you see that the landscape along the canal is much lower. This is an old reclaimed land, the Nieuwkoop Veenpolder. The parcelling out of the plots is on a larger scale than in the peat bogs. You can see that the locks are further apart. These ditches were called tours.
To prevent the houses in the peat bogs from sinking, a ring canal was dug around a reclaimed land. In this way, a polder level of its own was created.

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