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TT Circuit Assen
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
38 km · about 45 min drive
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Bedum
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
About Bedum
Bedum sits on the route: 10 minutes from Middelstum, 43km from Hunebedcentrum.
Bedum is in Groningen, Netherlands, with about 7,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Middelstum, about 6 km away.
Bedum (Dutch: [ˈbeːdʏm] ; Gronings: Beem [beɪ̯m]) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants (data missing) in 2021, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of DeRead more
Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.
Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).
Bedum has a railway station - Bedum railway station.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Bedum?
Within an hour or so of Bedum: TT Circuit Assen (38 km), Hunebedcentrum (43 km), Fort Bourtange (51 km).
Are there any good drives near Bedum?
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Where is Bedum?
Bedum is in Groningen, Netherlands, about 6 km from Middelstum.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 7,765
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Groningen
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 53.3008, 6.6028
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Essential numbers in Netherlands
Watch for cyclists. They generally have priority.
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Worth the detour from Bedum
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Hunebedcentrum
Museum in Borger beside D27, the largest of the Netherlands' 5,000-year-old hunebed dolmens: 22-metre granite burial chambers older than Stonehenge, scattered along the Drenthe hondsrug ridge.
43 km · about 50 min drive
photogenic
Fort Bourtange
1593 star fortress village in remote Groningen restored to its 1742 form: a living five-pointed star of moats, bastions and wooden drawbridges with a cobbled marketplace at its heart, most striking from the ramparts or the air.
51 km · about 60 min drive
Driving in Netherlands
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€2.04/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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