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De Linthorst Homanpolder is a polder and former water board in the Dutch province of Groningen.

The water board was established in 1919 to dyke part of the land outside the dikes (slikken) under the name De Slikken. After this was completed in 1941, the water board was renamed Linthorst Homanpolder, after the recently resigned provincial commissioner Hans Linthorst Homan. To the left of the crossroads you can see the monument built to mark the sealing of the reclamation of the Lithorst Homanpolder (by unemployed and NSB workers). On the other side, under the dyke, a smaller monument with a sad significance. It is a grave monument to 14 victims of the bus/train disaster 16-10-1940. On that date, a bus carrying 'Slikken workers' collided with a train near Groningen; 14 workers did not survive. Continue the route on Noordpolderweg. [page=