Editing Hurdegaryp (section)

== History ==
The village was first mentioned in 1401 as Herdegaryp. The etymology is unclear.<ref name="etym">{{cite web|url=https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/hurdegaryp |title=Hurdegaryp - (geografische naam) |website=Etymologiebank |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}}</ref> Originally the centre of the village was located further south. In 1830, the road to [[Leeuwarden]] was built. The [[Hurdegaryp railway station]] followed in 1866, and the centre of the village moved towards to the road and station.<ref name="etym"/><ref name="monument">{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sten009monu06_01/sten009monu06_01_0087.php |title=Hurdegaryp |author=Ronald Stenvert & Sabine Broekhoven |year=2000 |publisher=Waanders |location=Zwolle |isbn=90 400 9476 4 |language=nl |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>

The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1711 and has a wooden tower. It was a replacement for a 13th century church.<ref name="wonder">{{cite web|url=https://www.frieslandwonderland.nl/plaats/hurdegaryp |title=Hurdegaryp |website=Friesland Wonderland |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}}</ref> Up to 1829, the Grovestins, a fortified tower was located to the south of the village.<ref name="wonder"/>

Hurdegaryp was home to 624 people in 1840,<ref name="plaats">{{cite web|url=https://www.plaatsengids.nl/hurdegaryp |title=Hurdegaryp |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}}</ref> but its population has grown to around five thousand as of 2021.<ref name="stat" /> In 2017, five tiny houses measuring 3 by 9 metres were built in Hurdegaryp as affordable houses at €50,000.- It was an initiative of a starting real estate agent who himself could not afford to exchange his rented student room with a house. They were immediately sold.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://lc.nl/friesland/Direct-belangstelling-voor-vijf-%E2%80%98tiny-houses%E2%80%99-21901697.html |title=Direct belangstelling voor vijf ‘tiny houses’ |website=Leeuwarder Courant |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=nl}}</ref>