Scherpenzeel, Leusden and Woudenberg

After an overnight stay at Landgoed ISVW you will set off. You will see many more estates today, so this is a suitable place to stay! You will soon cycle to Huize Ten Treek, already mentioned as a farm in 1337. It is named after a tree on which official municipal announcements were posted. On the site of the noble Huis Scherpenzeel there was already a fortified house in the fourteenth century. Halfway through the nineteenth century it acquired its symmetrical and graceful appearance. At the time when the Netherlands still had various states that were governed by bishops, counts, dukes and lords of the manor, Scherpenzeel was still called'Scarpenzele\\\'. The last part (\\\'zeel\\\') refers to a fortified house, the first part indicates sharp poles around the village: the prototype of an old castle.