Valkenburg (South Holland)
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- For the other Valkenburg in Limburg, see: Valkenburg aan de Geul.
Valkenburg (population: 3,813 in 2004) is a village and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, now part of the municipality Katwijk.
On January 1, 2006, Valkenburg and Rijnsburg were merged into the new municipality Katwijk. The former municipality of Valkenburg had about 3878 inhabitants (1 June 2005) and a surface area of 15.74 km² (6.08 mile²) of which 0.23 km² (0.09 mile²) is water.
On the second Wednesday in September there is a horse market, the oldest in the Netherlands.
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