Jeløy (until 1920 named ''Moss herred'' - ''

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rural district'') was a former municipality in

Østfold Østfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in southeastern Norway. It borders Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side o ...

county, Norway. Jeløy was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see

formannskapsdistrikt () is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838. This system of municipalities was created in a bill approved by the Parliament of Norway and signed into law by King Carl Johan on 14 January ...

). It was merged with the urban municipality of Moss on July 1, 1943. The old municipality consisted of the

Jeløya Jeløya is an island located in the municipality of Moss in Østfold County, Norway. History Jeløya was actually a peninsula in the Oslofjord, but was divided from the mainland in 1855 by the Moss canal (''Mossekanalen'') a 20-meter broad cana ...

peninsula/island as well as the mainland rural district surrounding Moss city. Today we use both the name, Jeløy and Jeløya for the island in Moss.

The name

The Norse forms of the name were ''Jalund'' and ''Jǫlund''. The last element is the

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...

''-und'' (which is common in old Norwegian names of islands), but the meaning of the first element is unknown. Røed Hovedbygning

Røed gård

Røed gård is a manor house and farm located in southern Jeløy. The buildings are almost 300 years old. Roed Manor history is known from the medieval era, at which time, St. Clemens' church (''Clemenskirken'') owned the farm. The manor house was built by timber merchant Just Treschow in 1723. The main building is decorated in the Baroque, Rococo, Biedermeier, Empire and Art Nouveau.

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Former municipalities of Norway {{østfold-geo-stub no:Jeløy nn:Jeløy