Bekkestua is a town in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own

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, police station and fire station. It has grown to be the second largest centre of the municipality after

Sandvika Sandvika () is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway. It was declared a List of cities in Norway, city by the municipal council (Norway), municipal council in Bærum on 4 June 2003. Sandvika is situated approximately ...

, with small restaurants and shopping centres. Nadderud stadion (stadium), the home ground of the

Stabæk Fotball Stabæk Fotball is a Norwegian professional football club based in Bærum, a suburb of Oslo. It is part of the multi-sport organization Stabæk IF. Founded in 1912, the club's name is an archaic spelling of the suburban area Stabekk, from whic ...

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club is at walking distance from Bekkestua. It was opened in 1961 as a sporting ground for the Nadderud Gymnas (High School). This high school was later demolished to give space to an extended stadium. The

Oslo International School The Oslo International School (OIS) is an international school in Bekkestua, Norway. History Oslo International School, which is organised as a not-for-profit educational trust, was founded in 1963. During the 1960s the school grew from a prim ...

, often referred to as the British Primary School in the Oslo area, is located next to Nadderud stadion.

Documentary

* Johnny Fagerstrøm: ''Bekkestua : Opp gjennom tidene i historisk perspektiv''. DVD video (2008). Villages in Akershus Neighbourhoods in Bærum {{Akershus-geo-stub