Bjølstad (also called Bjølstadmo) or Heidal is a village in Sel Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The village is located in the Heidal valley, about northeast of the village of Skogbygda and about southwest of the town of Otta. The village has a population (2022) of 376 and a

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of . The village is the site of the historic

Bjølstad Farm The Bjølstad Farm () is a farm in Heidal in the municipality of Sel in Innlandet county, Norway. The farm was mentioned in written sources as early as 1270. Eirik Bjørnsson, who gradually purchased the farm in the 1430s, was the ancestor of th ...

and the Heidal Church. Historically, this small village was the

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of the former municipality of Heidal which existed from 1908 until 1965.

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Sel, Norway Villages in Innlandet {{Innlandet-geo-stub