Onwaard

Onwaard is a former municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. It was located east of the village of Melissant on the island Goeree-Overflakkee. The municipality contained no villages nor hamlets; only a few farms. It consisted of a number of small polders: Onwaard, Oud-Kraaijer, Kraaijenisse, and part of the Nieuw-Kraaijer polder.[1]

The municipality existed between 1817 and 1857, when it merged with Melissant.[2] It had 170 inhabitants in the middle of the 19th century.[1]

References
  1. Abraham Jacob van der Aa, "Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden", vol. 8 (N/O), 1846, p. 461.
  2. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.


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