Venneshamn is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Inderøy Municipality Inderøy is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen, Trøn ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

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 ...

. It is located along the

Trondheimsfjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's List of Norwegian fjords, third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørl ...

on the northeastern end of the

Fosen Fosen is a traditional district in coastal Trøndelag county, Norway. The district consists of the municipalities Osen, Åfjord, Ørland, Indre Fosen, Orkland, Heim, Hitra, and Frøya. In colloquial speech, Fosen also refers to the Fosen ...

peninsula. The village is located about north of the village of

Mosvik Mosvik may refer to: Places * Mosvik (village), a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Mosvik Municipality, a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway * Mosvik Church, a church in Inderøy Municipalit ...

, and about north of the village of Kjerringvika and the

Skarnsund Bridge The Skarnsund Bridge ( or ) is a long concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Skarnsundet strait in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. When finished in 1991, it replaced the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry and it gives th ...

that crosses the

Skarnsundet Skarnsundet is a strait in the Trondheimsfjord in Trøndelag county, Norway. The strait connects the Beitstadfjorden with the outer section of the Trondheimsfjorden. The long and wide Skarnsund is located in Inderøy Municipality. On the northe ...

strait. The village of

Framverran Framverran is a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about from the village of Mosvik, about northwest of the village of Venneshamn, and about northeast of Trongsundet. The village sits along the Beit ...

lies about northwest of Venneshamn. Verran Sparebank (Norway's smallest bank) was based in Venneshamn until 2006 when it merged with Grong Sparebank. There was also a general store here until it closed in August 2008. The port of Venneshamn had a scheduled ferry service for many years. In 1958, the car ferry company

Innherredsferja Innherredsferja AS () was a Norway, Norwegian ferry operator in the Trondheimsfjord in Nord-Trøndelag county based in Levanger (town), Levanger. It operated the Levanger–Hokstad Ferry between Levanger and the island of Ytterøya, and the Vangs ...

started the

Levanger Levanger may refer to: Places * Levanger Municipality, a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger (town), a town within Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger landsogn, a former municipality (1856–1962) in Trø ...

– Hokstad–

Vangshylla Vangshylla is a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the southwest end of the Inderøya peninsula in the Utøya, Inderøy, Utøya area, surrounded on two sides by the Trondheimsfjord. The village sits at ...

– Kjerringvika–Venneshamn Ferry, connecting the village to roads at Mosvik, Inderøy,

Ytterøya Ytterøya is an island in the Trondheimsfjord in Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long island has an area of has about 600 residents (as of 2018). The highest point is the tall Sanstadkammen. The island has good agricul ...

, and

. In 1968, a county road was completed from Kjerringvika to Venneshamn, granting the settlement road access to the main village of Mosvik.

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Villages in Trøndelag Inderøy {{Trøndelag-geo-stub