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Valestrandfossen or ValestrandsfossenAccording to Statens kartverk
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Valestrandfossen is the largest settlement on the whole island of Osterøy. The village has a population (2019) of 1,303 and a 
The famous Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull had his summer house here. In 1858, he bought a farm in Valestrand. The house was designed during 1865 by his youngest brother, architect Georg Andreas Bull. Ole Bull lived there for a time principally between tours. In 1872, he bought property on the island of Lysøen in what is now Bjørnafjorden Municipality, south of
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Norway
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's second-largest city and municipality Bergen
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, Vestland
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county. It lies at Sørfjorden to the west and south of the municipal centre of Lonevåg. Sites worth mentioning include Hamre and Hamre Church.
Valestrandfossen has shops, a gas station, primary school, hairdressers, pubs, and Lerøy Fossen AS, the world's largest trout smokehouse.
Valestrandfossen is the largest settlement on the whole island of Osterøy. The village has a population (2019) of 1,303 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 . Located by the Sørfjorden, it has a regular ferry (the ''MF Ole Bull'') that crosses the fjord to Åsane in Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
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.
The famous Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull had his summer house here. In 1858, he bought a farm in Valestrand. The house was designed during 1865 by his youngest brother, architect Georg Andreas Bull. Ole Bull lived there for a time principally between tours. In 1872, he bought property on the island of Lysøen in what is now Bjørnafjorden Municipality, south of Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
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which became the primary residence of his family.
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Villages in Vestland Osterøy {{Vestland-geo-stub