West-Vlieland

West-Vlieland (also known as Westeyende) (West Frisian: West-Flylân) was a village on the island of Vlieland in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

It was gradually lost to the advance of the sea, by 1736 only two houses remained.

[2] The village had its own town hall, church, school, poorhouse and a mill which was built in 1647[3] and by 1670 it had between 2.000 and 2.500 inhabitants, making it a large and prosperous village.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the town had a famous bar and a military storage.

[4] All of this led to East Vlieland increasingly outcompeting its neighbour until West-Vlieland disappeared entirely.

Map dated 1743 showing Westeynde