Dwarsgracht
Water hamlet of thatched farmhouses, footbridges and boat sheds strung along a quiet canal.
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This guide to Dwarsgracht, the quiet water hamlet beside Giethoorn, follows the money of a village that grew up in the seventeenth century along its canal. It looks at the peat cutters, reed cutters, fishermen and farmers who lived here, and at what it cost, and paid, to keep a farm reachable only by boat. Stand by one of the wooden boat sheds on the canal bank while you listen.
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