Reddal is a village in the municipality of

Grimstad Grimstad () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the Grimstad (to ...

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county,

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. It is located in the western part of the municipality in the Landvik area, about west of the town of Grimstad and about southeast of the small village of

Nygrenda Nygrenda is a village in Grimstad municipality in Agder county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Ja ...

. The main industry in the village is

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, with the most important products being

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es, berries and

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. The large lake

Syndle Syndle (historic: ''"Søndlevatn"'') is a lake in the municipality of Grimstad in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Landvik area, about northwest of the center of the Grimstad (town), town of Grimstad. The lake Syndle flows into a sm ...

lies just north of the village. The freshwater ''Reddalsvannet'' lake is located along the south side of the village area. There is a protected

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at the lake. In order to gain additional farmland in Reddal, a canal was built in 1877 to lower the lake's water level by . This lowered the water down to sea level. The Reddal Canal () connects the Reddalsvannet lake and the nearby Landviksvannet lake to the sea. Today, the canal is popular with small boats.

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Villages in Agder Grimstad {{Agder-geo-stub