Brekkeåsen or Kirkevoll is a village in

Tønsberg Municipality Tønsberg () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Jarlsberg. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Tønsberg, ...

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county,

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. The village is located about to the north of the city of Tønsberg. The village of

Revetal Revetal is a village in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located about to the northwest of the city of Tønsberg, about to the northwest of the village of Linnestad, about to the south of the village of Bre ...

lies about to the south, the village of

Svinevoll Svinevoll is a village in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The village is located about to the west of the village of Brekkeåsen, about east of the village of Fon, and about to the north of the village of Revetal. Histor ...

lies about to the west, and the village of Rånerudåsen lies about to the northeast.

Våle Church Våle Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kirkevoll. It is the church for the Våle parish which is part of the Tønsberg domprosti (deanery) i ...

is located in the northern part of the village (which is why the northern area of the present village is known as ''Kirkevoll'' which literally translates to "church meadow"). The old villages of Kirkevoll and Brekkeåsen grew together over time due to

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. Now,

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considers them to be one village. The village has a population (2023) of 974 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

of .

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Tønsberg Villages in Vestfold {{Vestfold-geo-stub