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Country
  
Netherlands

Demonym(s)
  
Voorstenaar

Postcode
  
7382–7397, 7439

Area
  
126.5 km²

Local time
  
Wednesday 5:10 AM

Elevation
  
6 m (20 ft)

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area code
  
055, 0571

Province
  
Gelderland

Team
  
SV CCW '16

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Weather
  
6°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 100% Humidity

Voorst ( pronunciation ) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.

Contents

Map of Voorst, Netherlands

Population centres

  • Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken)
  • Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small lake and beach)
  • De Kar (near a motorway junction (A1, Amsterdam- Berlin)
  • De Vecht
  • De Wijk
  • Gietelo (castle ruin of Nijenbeek on the IJssel dyke)
  • Klarenbeek (partly in the municipality Apeldoorn; small railroad station)
  • Klein-Amsterdam
  • Nijbroek
  • Posterenk (also near the A1, with an old Dutch wind-mill)
  • Spekhoek
  • Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer
  • Terwolde
  • Teuge (with an airfield, where parachuting is taught)
  • Twello, half-way between Apeldoorn and Deventer, which is the main village of the municipality, having over 11,000 inhabitants; the town-hall, some industry, most schools, a railway station, a shopping centre etc. can be found there
  • Voorst, an old village along the road between Apeldoorn and Zutphen, with a beautiful old church; 1 mile south of Voorst, another small railroad station was opened in 2006
  • Wilp, a tiny village on the IJssel opposite to Deventer; it has a small, very old church and a hospital for mentally handicapped people; the village already existed in 768; Saint Lebuinus built a chapel there; the name is allegedly derived from wel-apa that is: well-water; it is possible, that prehistoric Celtic or Germanic people worshipped a holy well there.

    • Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voorst, June 2015

    References

    Voorst Wikipedia
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