Ledig Erf
Lively canal-side corner with terraces where two old waterways meet beside the medieval moat.
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This guide to Ledig Erf in Utrecht follows the water at the city's southern edge, back to the early twelfth century and a bishop named Godebald, whose work on the Kromme Rijn left the city with a problem it had to dig its way out of. Along the way you'll meet the old Tolsteeg gate and its toll road, and the travellers who waited here for a ferry. Best heard standing by the Tolsteeg bridge, looking at the water.
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