Second Walk mill tour
Surveyor Joannes Leupenius made this map of the Purmer and its surroundings in 1683. But the map image is from 1622, in other words, this is how the layout of the Purmer was after reclamation.
Looking closely at the map, you can see the numbered plots, ditches, (wide) draught ditches and ring canals that provided drainage to the mills (so-called mill corridors). We are standing here by one of those draughts that led to some mills: the Tweede Gangsmolentocht. Looking eastwards, the agricultural part of the Purmer towards Oosterweg, there were two mills in the distance along the draught ditch and two more near the Purmerringvaart. See the detail map for the mills at the bottom: Detail Plot map Purmer, 1683.
