Melby is a farming village in the municipality of

Skaun Skaun is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Børsa. Other villages include Buvika, Eggkleiva, Melby, Skaun, and Viggja. Skaun is pred ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

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 ...

. It is located in the south-central part of the municipality, about southwest of the village of

and the

Norwegian County Road 709 Norwegian County Road 709 ( no, Fylkesvei 709, abbreviated as ''Fv709'') is a Norwegian county road which runs between the villages of Børsa and Hove in the municipality of Skaun in Trøndelag county, Norway. The long road intersects with the E ...

and about south of

Eggkleiva Eggkleiva is a village in the municipality of Skaun in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along Norwegian County Road 709, about halfway between the villages of Skaun and Børsa. The village of Melby lies about southwest of Eggkleiva. ...

. The town of

Orkanger Orkanger is a town and the administrative centre of Orkland municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town is also a former municipality which existed from 1920 until 1963. The town sits at the end of the Orkdal Fjord, an arm of the Trondhei ...

and it suburb of

Fannrem Fannrem is a village in the municipality of Orkland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Orkla River about south of the urban area of Orkanger, Thamshavn, and Råbygda, and about north of the village of Vormstad. Due ...

(in the neighboring municipality) both lie about to the west. There is an old, preserved school building dating from 1878 in Melby. The school building is a part of the local museum ''Skaun bygdamuseum''. The area is named Melby (

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

: ''Meðalbýr''), which means "middle farm".

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Skaun Villages in Trøndelag {{Trøndelag-geo-stub