Våxtorp () is a

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situated in

Laholm Municipality Laholm () is a town and the seat of Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 6,527 inhabitants in 2015. Laholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a ''city''. The town is located at the ...

Halland County Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county (''län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad. It borders the counties of Västra Götal ...

, Sweden, with 970 inhabitants in 2010. The village is situated not too far from the horst

Hallandsås Hallandsås is a horst on the border between the Swedish counties Skåne and Halland. It is part of a geological formation that includes an island in the sea outside the village of Torekov near Båstad called ''Hallands Väderö''. The geolog ...

en and the national highway number 24 runs through it. Most of the modern settlement has grown around the crossing of the roads from Båstad to

Hishult Hishult is a locality and a parish situated in Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 332 inhabitants in 2010. The area has been a centre of iron extraction and formed a county, including parts of northern Skåne Scania, also known ...

and

Laholm Laholm () is a town and the seat of Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 6,527 inhabitants in 2015. Laholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a ''city''. The town is located at the ...

Örkelljunga Örkelljunga is a locality and the seat of Örkelljunga Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the ...

. In the beginning of the last century the village was not more than a couple of farms near this crossing. The most noted landmark is the church of the ''Våxtorp-Hasslöv''

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and the two skiing centres. The settlement dates back at least to the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

when the church was built. It is a possibility that the area has been settled since the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second prin ...

given the existence of at least one Bronze Age burial mound (several were, as in southern Sweden in general removed during the 17th and 18th century). The coat of arms, which was granted to the then municipality of Våxtorp (which were integrated with Laholm 1971) is a swan and two lines) in 1967. It had however been in use since the Middle Ages when the lords to the manor of Vallen used it as their personal coat of arms. For its size the village has a large number of active sports organisations counting one soccer team and a volleyball team which has reached the next to highest national league at some occasions.

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* (spoken examples of the local dialect) Populated places in Laholm Municipality {{Halland-geo-stub