Uitkerke, as an independent village, is more than a thousand years old.

It is now an independent village with its own governing board of trustees.

From the 1920s onwards, six of them became independent villages.

The construction of a new church and the proceedings to become an independent village began in the 1775.

It was formed in 1995 from the three formerly independent villages.

From the 1920s onward, many of them developed into independent villages.

Each of the former independent villages has their own Protestant church and parish.

From 1980 to 1996 it also had now independent village of Hrkovce.

Bay View existed as an independent village for seven years, from 1879-1886.

In 1895 Vatta became a town, and from 1950 an independent village.