Kruiningen, Yerseke and 's-Gravenpolder

Zuid-Beveland is small-scale and green. The landscape is divided into irregular blocks or plots by streams, ditches, hedges and dikes.

The irregular microrelief was created by the extraction of salt from peat, but it is also shaped by the many drinking pools and by the beautiful hawthorn hedges in the area. There are also a few refuge mountains, which were raised by residents of the area in the Middle Ages to build old wooden castles, or where they fled during high water. The dikes are covered with double rows of trees and fruit nurseries grow their fruit between hawthorn hedges on small pieces of land, while the landscape further north has upright vegetation and therefore has an open character.

The first is in Wemeldinge and bears a name that many other mills also have: De Hoop. The mill was built in 1866 by a miller who worked on the predecessor of the other mill in Wemeldinge (Aeolus). The mill was in operation until 1968. Plans were then made to convert the mill into a home, but these plans disappeared again. Nowadays, the white round stone mill with two pairs of grinding stones still grinds grain on a voluntary basis.

The other mill, De Korenhalm, that you pass during the cycle tour is on the edge of 's-Gravenpolder. The round, brick mill towers proudly above the surrounding fields. The mill was built in 1876, three years after a predecessor burned down fifty meters from this location. In 2013, the mill is no longer in operation, but it is still operational.