Bjølstad or Heidal is a village in Sel Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The n ...

county,

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. The village is located in the Heidal valley, about northeast of the village of Skogbygda and about southwest of the town of Otta. The village has a population (2021) of 386 and a

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of . The village is the site of the historic Bjølstad Farm and the

Heidal Church Heidal Church ( no, Heidal kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bjølstad, in Heidal, a side valley of the main Gudbrandsdalen valley. It is the churc ...

. Historically, this small village was the

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of the former municipality of Heidal which existed from 1908 until 1965.

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Sel Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub