Lövstalöt is a locality

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

 situated in Uppsala Municipality

Uppsala Municipality

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, Uppsala County

Uppsala County

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, Sweden

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 with 982 inhabitants in 2005.

Lövstalöt is situated 12 km north of the city of Uppsala

Uppsala

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, in the flat country that surrounds the city. Until the end of the 1930s, the village consisted of a few houses and a school, built in 1892. In 1938, a woodworking

Woodworking

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 factory, Bälinge Snickerifabrik, was built.

Most of the houses in Lövstalöt were built during the 1960s and 1980s. Detached houses dominate, but there are also some terraced houses.

In the centre of Lövstalöt there is a gravefield from the iron age

Iron Age

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