Nordfold is a village in

Steigen Municipality Steigen () is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leinesfjorden. Other villages include Leirvikbogen, Leines, Nordfold, ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

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 Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The village of Nordfold lies along the Nordfolda, a northern branch of the main Folda fjord. The village lies about east of the municipal centre of

Leinesfjorden Leinesfjorden or Myklebostad is the administrative centre of Steigen Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about west of the village of Nordfold along the Leinesfjorden, the fjord after which the village is named. T ...

. Nordfold is the location of the Nordfold Church.

History

The village was the

administrative centre An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgi ...

of the old

Nordfold Municipality Nordfold is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1906 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality surrounded the Nordfolda branch off of the Folda fjord in what is now Steigen Municipality, plus ...

which existed from 1906 until 1964. Prior to the opening of the Steigen Tunnel in 1990, there was no road access to the municipality and Nordfold was the ferry

quay A wharf ( or wharfs), quay ( , also ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. Such a structure includes one or more Berth (mo ...

for the regular ferry routes connecting Steigen to the rest of the country.

References

{{authority control Villages in Nordland Steigen Populated places of Arctic Norway