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![The extended farm dwelling at Hopland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_304-1.jpg?itok=ird44EKf)
Hopland
The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in one row. There have been many such joined structures in the coastal communities, but today there are few remaining. If we travel to the other side of the North Sea, to the Faeroes, Shetland and the Orkney Islands, we find corresponding features in the older building traditions. We find ourselves in a large North Atlantic cultural area.
![Kjelstraumen today](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_305_kjelstraumen_150.jpg?itok=5jwimkOE)
Kjelstraumen
If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic increased as well as the trading with Nordland in fish and herring, feather and down. One of the central routes passes through Kjelstraumen, in the sound between Ulvøy and Bakkøy. This has been a place for a guesthouse since 1610, with Royal Letter of Privilege, part of the large network of trading post and guesthouse locations along the coast.
![The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/austr_5.jpg?itok=-8B2oviO)
![The Hopland mills around 1940.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_304-3.jpg?itok=ZvabRlGu)
![Helleland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_392-1.jpg?itok=gUJR0vvn)
Helleland
The old “recorder residence” at Helleland has been both residence for the district recorder and officer’s residence. The main building, which came under protection in 1924, was built in 1764 by the curate Christian Heiberg. When he was appointed parish priest in Jølster, he sold the farm to the state employee Geelmuyden, who resold the farm to Hans De Knagenhielm in 1774. He was the head of “Søndre Hardangerske kompani” (a local army division).
![County clerk's house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_386-1.jpg?itok=Dk9pztai)
Hesthamar
Hesthamar, some kilometres north of Utne, is one of the oldest residences for a district recorder in the country. In 1637, barely 50 years after the office of the district recorder was established in 1591, the local people bought this residence from the bailiff Lauritz Johnsen on Torsnes. From 1659 the district recorders lived here, intermittently, up to 1790. This is when Helleland at Lofthus became a “recorder” farm.
![Old pine forest in Husedalen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_16.jpg?itok=gBADAIFF)
![The guesthouse settlement at Utne around 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_387-2.jpg?itok=FdeIFyRP)
Utne
When sergeant Peder Larsen Børsem from Strandebarm was “demobilised” in 1721, following the large Nordic War, he married the Bergen lady Elisabeth Schrøder and settled as innkeeper at Utne with a letter of privilege from the county governor dated 29 October 1722.
![From Kinsekvelven river toward Lakes Kinsevatnet and Veivatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_25.jpg?itok=-w2m_QOH)
Veivatnet
From Kinsekvelven river and inward to Lake Veivatnet, we can wander through one of Hardangervidda's many fertile areas. A number of finicky plants grow here, and there are plenty of birds and fish. We can thank a lime rich soil for the diversity.
![Bronze keys and remains of a wooden stick from Døso.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_234-1_b.jpg?itok=EoET9UiR)