Roresand or Roresanden is a village in

Grimstad Grimstad () is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Some of the villages in Grimstad include Eide, Espenes, Fevik, ...

municipality in

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

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 ...

. The village is located on the southwestern end of the lake Rore along the

Norwegian County Road 404 Norwegian County Road 404 (Fv 404) is a Norwegian county road in Agder county, Norway. The long road runs between the village of Frivoll in Grimstad municipality in the southeast and the village of Søre Herefoss in Birkenes municipality at ...

. The village sits about northwest of the town of Grimstad, about east of the village of

Reddal Reddal is a village in the municipality of Grimstad in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the western part of the municipality in the Landvik area, about west of the town of Grimstad and about southeast of the small village of Nygrenda. Th ...

, and about south of the village of

Skiftenes Skiftenes is a small village in Grimstad municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located along the Norwegian County Road 404, about north of the village of Roresand in the Landvik Landvik is a former municipality in the old Aust- ...

. The lake

Syndle Syndle (historic: ''"Søndlevatn"'') is a lake in the municipality of Grimstad in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the Landvik area, about northwest of the center of the town of Grimstad. The lake Syndle flows into a small river on the ...

lies about to the northwest and the lake Landvikvannet lies about the same distance to the south.

Landvik Church Landvik Church ( no, Landvik kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Grimstad Municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is just south of the village of Roresand in the Landvik area. It is the church for the Grimstad parish which is p ...

sits about south of the village. The cemetery for the church is located in Roresand, right next to the Landvik school. Historically, Roresand was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of the old municipality of

Landvik Landvik is a former municipality in the old Aust-Agder county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1971. The municipality's area is now located in the western and central part of the present-day municipality o ...

which existed until 1971.

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Villages in Agder Grimstad {{Agder-geo-stub