Oudeschild (municipality of Texel)
Fishing village on the island of Texel, originally called 't Schilt. The village was founded at the beginning of the 17th century on the Schilsloot, from where barrels of drinking water from the wells at the 'Brakestein' farm were transported by small boats to the seagoing vessels at the Texel roads. On the elongated De Ruyterstraat resurrected war...
