This is Scheveningen

Scheveningen is a former small fishing community located between the sand dunes at the west coast of The Netherlands. 700 years ago the small village was known as Sceavian which is the old English word for ‘lookout’. Nowadays a few local people still use the dialect consisting of quite a lot of words which are connected to the English language. Approximately 60.000 people live in Scheveningen and due to a collapse in the fishing industry in the seventies just a small number is still working on local fishing trawlers or in fish processing plants. The presence of beautiful sandy beaches and several attractions make Scheveningen as the biggest coastal resort with an annual average of 16 million visitors. Scheveningen is not an independent town, but part of The Hague. A local political party serve the interests of the inhabitants Scheveningen.



This contribution comes from Willem Ment Den Heijer, geography teacher of T2A (the Dutch Selhovians) and he was born in Scheveningen. He inivites his friends from Cudillero to write about their fishing harbour!! Just drop a line!!