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Hurum is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Buskerud

Buskerud

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway. Its population is about 700....
. The municipality of Hurum was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norway local self-government districts put into force in 1838. This system of municipality was created in a bill approved by the Storting and signed into law by King Charles XIV John of Sweden on 14 January 1837....
). The small village of Holmsbu

Holmsbu

Holmsbu is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway, located by the Drammensfjord. Its population is 351 .The seaport village received city rights in 1847....
was granted town status

Market town

Market town or market right is a law term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host Market, distinguishing them from villages and city....
in 1847, but it did not become a municipality of its own. It lost its town status on 1 January 1964.

Hurum was once suggested as the location for the new national airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
of Norway.

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Hurum is a municipality

Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
in Buskerud

Buskerud

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark, and Vestfold. The county administration is located in Drammen....
county

Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway

Norway

Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway. Its population is about 700....
. The municipality of Hurum was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt

Holmsbu

Holmsbu is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway, located by the Drammensfjord. Its population is 351 .The seaport village received city rights in 1847....
was granted town status

Market town

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
of Norway. The plan was however abandoned, and the main airport is now situated at Gardermoen in Akershus county.

General information

Name

The Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
form of the name was Húðrimar. The meaning of the first element (Húð) is unknown and the last element is the plural

Plural

Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. In the English language, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers....
form of rimi which means "ridge

Ridge

A ridge is a geological feature that features a continuous elevational crest for some distance. Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size....
".

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms

Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
is from modern times. They were granted on 2 February 1979. The arms show two blue wavy lines on a silver background. This was chosen because the municipality is on a peninsula between two fjord

Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
s: Oslofjord

Oslofjord

The Oslofjord is a bay in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbj?rnskj?r fyrstasjon and F?rder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north....
and Drammensfjord

Drammensfjord

Drammensfjord is a fjord in Norway that connects to Ytre Oslofjord on the west side. It stretches to the north and northeast. The Drammenselva river discharges into the head of the fjord....
. At the same time the arms are based on the arms of the Huitfeldt family, who played a major role in the local history. The family used a single bend as arms.

Geography

The municipality borders Røyken

Røyken

R?yken is a village and Municipalities of Norway in Buskerud Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda....
to the north. To the west the coastline is located close to the eastern coast of Vestfold

Vestfold

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Buskerud and Telemark. The county administration is in T?nsberg.Vestfold is located west of the Oslofjord, as the name indicates....
with Svelvik

Svelvik

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Vestfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Svelvik....
. It is connected to the eastern side of the Oslofjord via Oslofjordtunnel

Oslofjordtunnel

Oslofjord Tunnel is a subsea road tunnel under the Oslofjord, Norway, connecting Hurum, Buskerud in the west to Frogn, Akershus in the east. The Oslofjord Tunnel is one of the longest undersea tunnels of its kind in Northern Europe; it is 7.2 km long and reaches a depth of 134 metres below sea level, with a maximum gradient of 7%....
, one of the longest undersea tunnel

Undersea tunnel

An undersea tunnel is a tunnel which is partly or wholly constructed under a body of water. They are often used where building a bridge or operating a ferry link is impossible, or to provide competition for existing bridges or ferry links)....
s of its kind in Northern Europe

Northern Europe

Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions:...
. The tunnel is long and connects Hurumhalvøya to Akershus

Akershus

is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo and ?stfold; it has also a short border with Sweden . Akershus is the second largest county by population after Oslo, with more than half a million inhabitants....
county.

Hurum is located on the southern part of Hurumhalvøya, which is the peninsula

Headland

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between the Oslofjord and Drammensfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Klokkarstua, while the most populous villages are Tofte and Sætre

Sætre

S?tre is a village in the municipality of Hurum, Norway. Its population is 3,195, of which 77 people live within the border of the neighboring municipality R?yken....
.

External links

from Statistics Norway
Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway is the Norway statistics bureau. It was established in 1876.Relying on a staff of about 1000, Statistics Norway releases more than 800 Norwegian statistical publications every year on its web site....