It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen.

The village was first mentioned in 976 as Brumsale, and means "single room house on the bank".

Borssele is a planned polder village which was designed in 1616 by Cornelis Adriaensz Soetwater.

The first two stages for a combined 700-760 MegaWatt capacity was awarded to DONG Energy (among 36-38 bidders) in July 2016 at a price of 7.27 euro cent per kilowatt hour[7][8][9] for 15 years, after which it would produce at market conditions.

[15] In April 2021, Ørsted agreed to sell half of the facility to Norges Bank Investment Management.

[21] The auction was won by the Blauwwind II c.v. consortium with 8MW Vestas-Mitsubishi turbines, at a price of 5.45 c/kWh.