Vemundvik

This article is about the village in Namsos, Norway. For the former municipality in Norway, see Vemundvik Municipality.

Vemundvik^[2] is a village in Namsos Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the sea shore, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the town of Namsos and about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the village of Ramsvika. Vemundvik Church is located in the village.

Vemundvik
Village
View of the village church, Vemundvik Church
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Coordinates: 64.5177°N 11.5420°E / 64.5177; 11.5420
Country	Norway
Region	Central Norway
County	Trøndelag
District	Namdalen
Municipality	Namsos Municipality
Elevation [1]	31 m (102 ft)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code	7810 Namsos

The village of Vemundvik was the administrative centre of the old Vemundvik Municipality from 1838 until 1941, when the municipal administration moved to the nearby town of Namsos.^[3]

Name

The village (originally the parish) is named after the old Vemundvik farm (Old Norse: Vémundarvík) since the first Vemundvik Church was built there. The first element is an old male name Vémundr or the more modern version, Vemund. The last element is vík which means "bay" or "inlet".^[3][4]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Vemundvik include:

• Jørgen Johannes Havig (1808–1883), a Norwegian politician