Bakkum is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.

It is a part of the municipality of Castricum and lies about 12 km southwest of Alkmaar.

[3] The village was first mentioned in the late-11th century as Bachem, and means "settlement on a height".

After World War II, it started to form a single urban area with Castricum.

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