Directions
to
Castricum Protestant Cemetery
Location: Castricum is located on the west coast of Holland, in the province of Noord Holland.
Castricum is 21 kilometers north of Haarlem and 28
kilometers north-west of Amsterdam, off the main
Haarlem-Den Helder road.
From Amsterdam, take the A9 to
Haarlem and then continue through to Alkmaar. Take the
exit Castricum - N203. Follow this till you are at the
northside of Castricum. Take a left onto the N513 (called
Zeeweg). Take the first exit left, onto the Soomerwegh.
Follow this main road into town and take a right on C F
Smeetslaan, which is also a main road. Take the first
street left onto the Dorpsstraat. Follow this road for a
few hundreds meters. The third road on your left should
be the Schoolstraat. The cemetery is in this street, a
few dozen meters on the right hand side.
The churchyard surrounds the
church, which is in the south-eastern part of Castricum
close to the town hall in Dorpstraat, the main road
through the town. In its north-eastern part are the
Commonwealth war graves.
Castricum Protestant Churchyard contains 34 Commonwealth
burials of the Second World War, half of them
unidentified. There is also one Dutch and one Polish war
grave.
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There are 36 war
casualties commemorated in this cemetery.
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