Scheveningen

Scheveningen, a fishing-village and seaside resort in South Holland, is situated on the North Sea, about two miles NW. of the Hague. Pop. 7980. It is visited by the aristocracy of Holland for sea-bathing, there being an excellent 'bath-house,' numerous villas, and hotels, and, during the season, all the gaieties and amusements of a fashionable watering-place. A range of sandhills protects the village from the sea. The road from the Hague to Scheveningen passes beneath an avenue of fine trees and wooded banks, with a tramway for passengers and goods. Off Scheven- ingen the Dutch fleet was defeated, and its admiral Tromp killed, by the British under Monk on 8th-10th August 1653.