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![Gamalt postopneri, Øpstad i Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_245-x.jpg?itok=p6Gt3T-l)
Øpstad
The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, bears witness to a well preserved house from the 1800s, nearest neighbour to the beautiful old vicarage. In the Øpstad hamlet there was a post office for more than a hundred years, until the 1970s. Today it is possible to walk the old post road across the mountain to Strandvik, as part of “Den Stavangerske Postvei” (The post road to Stavanger).
![Strusshamn at the beginning of the 1800s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_269-2-3.jpg?itok=GGmjJiOc)
Strusshamn
On the south side of Askøy, just west of Bergen, lies Strusshamn. The sheltered bay is one of the best harbours in Byfjorden, on the route south. At the time of the sailing ships the harbour could be full of vessels from Bergen and abroad, lying in wait for favourable wind. Old anchoring rings from 1687 bear witness to this. Strusshamn was a quarantine harbour for ships that came sailing in with the yellow pest flag flying.
![The guesthouse place at Brattholmen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_280_z.jpg?itok=nAblwrL-)
Brattholmen
The old guesthouse location in Brattholmen on the east side of Litlesotra, was probably established in the first half of the 1700s. A list from 1748 mentions that the place “for some years has been inhabited by an Enrolled Sailor by the name of Peder Michelsen”. As was the case for most other military hosts, he was exempt from paying income tax.
![Landrovågen, the 1980's.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_283-bu.jpg?itok=xIOX5Ooi)
Landro
Landro has been the largest estate on Sotra, including 15 farms with reasonable conditions for agriculture. Their boathouses have had an excellent harbour in Landrovågen. Landro thus has been a good basis for the combination of agriculture and fishing.
![The trading centre at Langøyna, Fjell](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_282-1_0.jpg?itok=pAlOV4ts)
Langøy
Up to 1842 it was necessary to have a royal letter of privilege in order to carry out trade. According to the law only city dwellers were allowed to obtain such a privilege, and in Hordaland it was thus the citizens of Bergen who owned and ran the trading centres. In 1842, following a liberalisation of the trading legislation, the privilege arrangement was abandoned and anyone could apply to the municipal council for permission to carry out trading activity. Landøy is one of the places that were established in this period.
![Turøyvarden, Fjell](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_282_z.jpg?itok=o-UdCSCG)
![The bridge at Mørkhølen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_249_morkholen_bru_150_0.jpg?itok=3UvMvfAf)
![Notaholmen, Samnanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_250_zz.jpg?itok=XSNGpegF)
Notaholmen
The fishnet shed at Notaholmen stands as a reminder of the days when people used to row out on the fjord to set their nets. On Notaholmen the nets were dried, repaired and tanned. And it was a great advantage to store them in a place inaccessible for rats and mice.
![Prospectus of Bukken 1808.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_274-1.jpg?itok=pY2NbrWF)
Bukken
In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch full-rigged ship once passed the mountain outcrops on the island with the guesthouse so close that a ram grazing there jumped down on a yardarm (rånokk), thus the name “Buch van Raa!”
![Glesvær at the turn of the century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_275z_0.jpg?itok=tY8fVOFn)
Glesvær- Trading post
Glesvær is one of the oldest trading posts on the West Norwegian coast. In the 1700s and 1800s this was the most important fishing centre on Sotra. The first certain mention of the trading station Glesvær is in 1664. At that time it was the Bergen merchant Hendrich Wessel who owned the place and was in the possession of a trading privilege. Abraham Wessel, who took over in 1688 also obtained Royal Privilege for “Kiøbmandskab med Bønderne alleene at drive” (the only one to be allowed to carry on trade with the farmers).