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![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)
![Lyngoksen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/austr_16.jpg?itok=FU0ZNly2)
![Kræmmerholmen photographed in early 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_308-1obs.jpg?itok=M3y6dpBn)
Kræmmerholmen
Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged to travel into town in order to sell their produce and buy what they needed. In Bergen City Privilege of 1702 the merchants in the city were allowed to establish “Trading posts in the countryside”. The owner had to have residency in Bergen and the trading post was to be run by an assistant. In this way the city retained financial control of those living in the districts, and not least with buying and selling of fish.
![The defensive refuge at Borgåsen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-etne-2_img_1.jpg?itok=9l2JAuTi)
Borgåsen
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and protection for central parts of the district
![Kyrping at the turn of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_190.1.jpg?itok=mrZ32D0n)
Kyrping
The trading post down by the fjord at Kyrping does not belong to the oldest group of trading posts from the 1600s and 1700s. It was only after the liberalisation of the trading legislation that trade was established here.
![Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_189-5.jpg?itok=AnQc4WEU)
Skånevik- the trading post
There are only two buildings left of the old trading and guesthouse settlement in Skånevik. They are in the centre, close to the main road passing through the settlement. The other buildings that belonged to the place, the lodging house (“Holteriet”), the bakery, the courthouse, the boathouse and the sea house with the store, were pulled down in the last century.
![Stordalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/stordalen_endret_til_rgb.jpg?itok=nn6EunGo)
Stordalen
When the Etne water system was protected in 1994, preservation of the cultural landscape in Stordalen Valley was a a main objective. This is a valley with an exceptional abundance of Different types of plants and animals. In the grey alder forest in Stordalen there are more bird species than in most other places, in fact, denser than one tends to find in a tropical rainforest.
![The trading post Godøysund at the end of the 1880s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_223-1.jpg?itok=JgA7duW3)
Godøysund
The old hostelry centres were strategically placed with good harbours and anchoring conditions where people travelled. GODØYSUND, or Gøysundet, as it was called, was in the middle of Tysnes Parish, with easy access from the sea, also for the local population. Gøysundet is amongst the oldest hostelries in Sunnhordland.