Pollestad
Pollestad is a village in Klepp municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located south of the lake Orrevatnet and about 5 kilometres southwest of the town of Bryne. Orre Church is located in Pollestad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 827 residents
- Description: settlement in Klepp Municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Orre sentrum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orre Church and Old Orre Church.
Orre Church
Church
Orre Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Klepp Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Pollestad. It is the main church for the Orre parish which is part of the Jæren prosti in the Diocese of Stavanger.
Old Orre Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old Orre Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Klepp Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Orre. It formerly was the main church for the Orre parish which is part of the Jæren prosti in the Diocese of Stavanger. Old Orre Church is situated 2½ km northwest of Pollestad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bryne and Nærbø.
Bryne
Photo: Shauni, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bryne is a town in Time municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality of Time and it is also one of the 50 largest towns/cities in Norway.
Nærbø
Photo: Einarkramer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nærbø is in Hå municipality in Rogaland in Norway, situated north of Varhaug and south of Bryne. Nærbø is part of the flat geographical area Jæren that goes from Brusand in the south to Randaberg in the North.
Pollestad
- Categories: urban area in Norway and locality
- Location: Klepp, Rogaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.71802° or 58° 43′ 5″ northLongitude
5.56859° or 5° 34′ 7″ eastPopulation
827Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
9FC7PH99+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 267180723OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3142661Wikidata ID
Q1798195
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Pollestad” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Полестад”
- Cebuano: “Pollestad”
- Danish: “Pollestad”
- Dutch: “Pollestad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پوليستاد”
- Finnish: “Pollestad”
- French: “Pollestad”
- Malay: “Pollestad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pollestad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pollestad”
- Norwegian: “Pollestad”
- Romanian: “Pollestad”
- Spanish: “Pollestad”
- Swedish: “Pollestad”
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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 “Pollestad”. Photo: Ritchyblack, CC BY-SA 3.0.