Despite advances in technology, the 18th-century windmills at Kinderdijk have been maintained in working order to serve as a backup system in case more modern equipment fails. And indeed, they ...

Built in 1738 and 1740 to keep water out of the polder, Kinderdijk is the biggest concentration of old windmills in the country and are listed as national monuments. The village has been protected ...

9-year-old Donna visits a windmill and sees a miller at work in Kinderdijk, Netherlands.

It attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, dwarfing in number the 60-odd Kinderdijk residents who live there and operate the windmills. And now those millers say they've had enough.

Geography Key Stage 2. Study of a European location. A child-led introduction to Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, suitable to support study of a European location at KS2..

In The Windmill, a group of tourists hop on a bus to visit the windmills of Holland. None of them are being forced to do this by their parents, mind you. That's just what they're interested in.