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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.
![Firing position at Hesthaugen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_308-1.jpg?itok=rPoWCltP)
Vinappen
Vinappen lies on a low hill to the very west on the island. Here you have an amazing panorama of the sea. Originally the area was grazing land for cattle, but this changed when the Germans occupied the island. Just before WWII there was a small bearing station, used by the Norwegian Coast Artillery in connection with exercises at sea.
![Bjørn West-museum](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_321-2.jpg?itok=Re7gUt-t)
![Door](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_319-4.jpg?itok=-5nryjpy)
![The commanding officer's home.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_295_oe.jpg?itok=Z2h-WyAK)
Håøy
Håøy lies centrally in one of the main shipping lanes going into Bergen --- with Håyøsund on the south side facing Meland, and Hagelsundet facing Lindåslandet. Names like Nordfarskista and Nordfarsskorane explain things. The strategic position was important in Viking times and it has been important in our days too. The beacon on Håøy can have been built in the establishment of the coastal administration in Håkon the Good’s time, about 950 AD. The defence structure of which we say remains on Håøy Summit held a critical position during Norwegian neutrality during the First World War. The defence structure was taken down in 1957.
![The smithy at Odland, Meland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_297-1_0.jpg?itok=n38ypKHf)
Odland
The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse built a smithy in 1877, and this was in operation right up to the 1980s - one of the centres for auger production in Meland. In 1930 yet another smithy was built here. There was a smithy at Fossesjøen as early at the 18th century, and at the end of the 19th century they went over to auger smithing. There is still a market for hand-forged augers.
![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,
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![“The Karla Tannery”, Valestrand](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_324-1.jpg?itok=sLMcAPbz)
Valestrandsfossen- tanning industry
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of work. From the 1870s ever more ventures were started. Many of the large sea houses we see today around the bay have been places for tanning and leather enterprises.