Voorst

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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

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

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

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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Map of Voorst, Netherlands

Population centres

References