Every design for Hillegom

Did you grow up among the bulb fields at the top of the Duin- en Bollenstreek? Then Hillegom needs no introduction: a village on the old road between Leiden and Haarlem, where the Hillegommerbeek crosses the eastern edge of the coastal dunes, not far from where the Haarlemmermeer once lay.

There is a familiar comfort in its landmarks. The Oude Pomp, the Julianapark and the Van Nispenpark are the kind of places that belong to a Hillegom childhood, and Het Hof, the one estate that survived the spread of the bulb fields, became the town hall. Many old estate names, Weeresteyn, Treslong and Elsbroek among them, live on as neighbourhood names, so an ordinary address here still carries a trace of the merchants who once kept country houses in the village.

Follow the lines of this map and you trace your own way home: from school, past the park, along the creek that gave Hillegom its start.