Wijk en Aalburg

Wijk aan Zee is a town that has been a part of the new Beverwijk municipality on account that 1936, in the Midden-Kennemerland area in the province of Noord-Holland. Wijk aan Zee become, collectively with the village of Wijk aan Duin, earlier than it fell under the municipality of Beverwijk, under the name Wijk aan Zee and Duin, an impartial municipality. The village has approximately 2200 inhabitants. Wijk aan Zee is sandwiched between the metallic enterprise.

Tata Steel the North Sea and the Noordhollands Duinreservaat, on one avenue. During the 10th and 11th centuries, numerous parabolic dunes had been fashioned in and round Wijk aan Zee, because persistent droughts brought on the coast to fall and sand turned into blown inland. In the basins that formed those horseshoe-formed dunes, clay may want to settle out of the sea, allowing halophilic plant life to thrive and to shape a peat layer after death. With the withdrawal of the sea and the influx of clean water from the dunes, the basins become quite fertile dune fields, suitable for human cultivation.