Torpo
Torpo is a small village in Ål municipality, in Buskerud County, Norway, and can be reached by using highway 7. The name Torpo was adopted July 1, 1935 from the old name Torpe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torpo Stave Church and Torpo Church.
Torpo Stave Church
Church
Photo: Eric Spenle, CC BY 3.0.
Torpo Stave Church is a stave church located in Torpo, a small village in Ål municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. Torpo is located along Norwegian National Road 7, the Norwegian national road which runs between Oslo and Bergen.
Lya power station
Industrial building
Photo: PeltonMan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lya power station is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Opheim.
Opheim
Hamlet
Opheim is a village in Ål municipality in Buskerud, Norway. Opheim is situated in the north of the valley of Hallingdal. The traditional industry in the area is mostly agriculture with some forestry.
Torpo
- Type: Village with 391 residents
- Description: settlement in Ål Municipality, Norway
- Categories: urban area in Norway, human settlement, village with a church, and locality
- Location: Ål, Buskerud, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.66452° or 60° 39′ 52″ northLongitude
8.7194° or 8° 43′ 10″ eastPopulation
391Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)Open location code
9FGCMP79+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 634924765OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3134251Wikidata ID
Q1776298
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Torpo” goes by many names.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Torpo”. Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.