Sylte or Valldal is a village in

Fjord Municipality Fjord is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stordal. Other villages in the municipality include Valldal, E ...

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county,

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. The village is situated at the southern end of the

Valldalen Valldalen (or sometimes just ''Valldal'') is a valley in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located north of Norddalsfjorden. The village of Sylte, Norddal, Sylte (which is also called Valldal) is located at the end of ...

valley along the shore of the

Norddalsfjorden Norddalsfjorden is a branch off of the main Storfjorden (Sunnmøre), Storfjorden in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The fjord is located in Fjord Municipality and a small part is also in Stranda Municipality. The fjord is long, when you include ...

near the mouth of the Valldøla river, just west of the entrance to the

Tafjorden Tafjorden is an inner branch of the Norddalsfjorden/ Storfjorden in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site West Norwegian Fjords. The fjord is located southeast of the village of Syl ...

The village had a population (2012) of 411 and a

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of . Since 2012, the population and area data for this village area has not been separately tracked by

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. The village is located about northeast of the village of Eidsdal (across the fjord), and it is about northwest of the village of

Tafjord Tafjord is a village in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is very isolated and (other than by boat) the only way into the valley is by road from the village of Sylte. The road is composed almost entirely of two ...

which is accessed via several long tunnels including the

Heggur Tunnel The Heggur Tunnel () is a road tunnel in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long tunnel was built in 1982 to connect the isolated village of Tafjord to the rest of Norway's road network. The village is at the end of the T ...

Norwegian County Road 63 Norwegian County Road 63 ( or ) is a Norwegian county road in Møre og Romsdal county and a very small part in Innlandet county, Norway. It begins at Norwegian National Road 15 along the lake Langvatnet in Skjåk Municipality in Innlandet county ...

runs north through Sylte on its way through the

valley up to the

Trollstigen Trollstigen (or trollstigvegen; ) is a Hairpin turn, serpentine mountain road and pass in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the villag ...

area. The village is home to many industries, including production of

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and wood products,

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, and

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. The newspaper '' Storfjordnytt'' is published in Sylte.

Sylte Church Sylte Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Valldal, which is also known as Sylte, Norddal, Sylte. It is one of the two churches for the Nord ...

is also located here.

History

The name originates from an older word in dialect meaning wet lowland. The village was the

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of the old Norddal Municipality which existed until 2020.

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* {{Authority control Fjord (municipality) Villages in Møre og Romsdal