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![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![Hamre church, Osterøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_325-2_-hamre_kirke.jpg?itok=vm3U9puE)
Hamre Church
Hamre Church has, by all accounts been one of the four main churches in Horda County in the Middle Ages. Hamre was a main church for the whole of Hordaland. Timber remains in the present church show that there was a stave church here in medieval times.
![Hosanger church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_327-2.jpg?itok=wyNffaZc)
Hosanger church
On Christmas Day 1795, at 5 a.m., the lightning struck the church in Hosanger. After three hours, the timbered church from the 1600s, which had replaced the stave church from the Middle Ages, was in ashes. Already on New Years Day in 1796, a sermon was held for the Hosanger population in the main church at Hamre, to which the congregation belonged earlier,
![Ole Bull's villa, Valestrand](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_324-3.jpg?itok=tRiWSh24)
![The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_27.jpg?itok=zyI9-mbt)
Kvalvikane
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kvalvikane.
![Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_393-1.jpg?itok=d1meAEuf)
Ullensvang church
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1309. At that time the present Gothic stone church must have been new. Judging by the style in the western portal and the eastern chancel windows, the church must have been built around 1300 or just before, probably by builders from Bergen influenced by the English Gothic style.
![The fields have been affected by many landslides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_12.jpg?itok=UmE0Qwae)
![Eidfjord church.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_403-3.jpg?itok=tfrzqYxj)
Eidfjord church
The old stone church at Eidfjord has an open position on the terrace at Lægreid. In a diploma from 1310 it transpires that Torgeir on Sponheim donated a gift for the erection of the church in Eidfjord. Thus we can assume that the church was under construction at the time. The elements in the style confirm such a dating.
![A wedding at Kinsarvik church early in the 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_390-1.jpg?itok=j36S-Hzq)
Kinsarvik church
By all accounts the church in Kinsarvik must have been one of the four main churches in the old Horda County. The stone church standing today was restored by cathedral architect Chr. Christie in 1880, and again by Peter Helland-Hansen in 1960-61. At that time an archaeological investigation was undertaken, which has unearthed new knowledge about the church.
![Havrå and the arable fields up to the enclosed meadow.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_323-1_-havraatunet.jpg?itok=fiE6Ax_w)
Havrå
In the sunny, steep fjord landscape along Sørfjorden on the east side of Osterøy is the farm Havrå. The small “hamlet” is one of the few undisturbed farming communities that gives us the impression of the large communal yards in West Norway in the 1700s, with houses built close together and strips of arable land.