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![Sundvor, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_242-3.jpg?itok=Q9j0Y-ci)
![Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_320_kikedalen_150.jpg?itok=mWd_BFbm)
![Potholes by the Koldals River](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fokllk.jpg?itok=MZgPWao9)
Eikelandsosen
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountainside is along the river up to Koldal , one would look a long time to see anywhere else. There is much to dazzle a geologist's eyes. If only these features could bring others the same joy!"
![Skrivargarden in “”Kåravikjo”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_210-2.jpg?itok=sQdjqHps)
![Ådlandsstova, as it stood at Nedre Ådland, Stord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-2_sk_414.jpg?itok=cG31Cib5)
Ådlandsstova
The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautifully oval-cut. One story links the cottage to the Gildeskålbakken at Orninggård (Lower Ådland); thus indicating that the cottage has been the medieval banqueting hall. The building has been dated back to the 13-1400s by carbon dating.
![Coat of arms, Orning](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-1.jpg?itok=48LepR7r)
![Leirvik (Stord), around 1910](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_208-1.jpg?itok=4Zov-htE)
Leirvik- The trading post
Already in the Middle Ages the good harbour at Leirvik provided a connecting point. Here was a court of law, and a guesthouse was established here in the 1600s. But Leirvik never achieved the status of a trading post or a ship-loading place. In the census of 1865 parts of the farms Nordre Bjelland, Leirvik and Orninggård are mentioned as the “Coastal district of Lervig”. And the community grew around the old guesthouse location early in the 1800s.
![The trading store at Holsund is now in the Horda Museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_247-xx.jpg?itok=osh8ymrJ)
![Holdhus church, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_244-1x.jpg?itok=ztT8XwJj)
Holdhus church
The old church at Holdhus is one of the oldest timbered churches left in the west of Norway. The new church at Eide, built in 1889, replaced the church location from the Middle Ages. As the small, tarred church lies today, in the hilly landscape at Holdhus, it was taken over by the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments, who obtained title to the property in 1900 from Hans Holdhus.
![The trading post of Engevikhavn, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-243-3.jpg?itok=WaEdeaKO)
Engevikhavn
The guesthouse activity in Engevik in the 1700s could not have been very extensive. But a hundred years later a trading and guesthouse centre developed on a piece of land called Engevikhavn. This is the place where Segelcke had obtained licence to operate an inn and guesthouse business in 1729.