Biervliet

Biervliet is a small city in the Dutch province of Zeeland.

It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.

From 1619 onwards, the surrounding areas were enclosed with dikes and harbour disappeared in 1866.

[3] The Dutch Reformed Church in Biervliet has a number of intact stained windows dating from 1660 to 1661.

[4] It is the home town of William Buckels (or Beuckelszoon), a 14th-century fisherman credit for inventing the process of preparing soused herring known as gibbing.