Voorst
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Voorst is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 and a town in the eastern Netherlands
Netherlands
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.

Population centres

  • Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken)
  • Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small lake and beach)
  • De Kar (near a motorway junction (A1, Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
    Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

    - Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

    )
  • De Vecht
  • De Wijk
  • Gietelo (castle ruin of Nijenbeek on the IJssel dyke)
  • Klarenbeek
    Klarenbeek
    Klarenbeek is a village east of Apeldoorn, in the province of Gelderland in The Netherlands, with approximately 3500 inhabitants. The village belongs to two municipalities, Apeldoorn and Voorst, the municipality border is situated in the middle of the village....

     (partly in the municipality Apeldoorn
    Apeldoorn
    Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre and has 155,000 . The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen and Hoenderloo, has over 155,000...

    ; small railroad station)
  • Klein-Amsterdam
  • Nijbroek
  • Posterenk (also near the A1, with an old Dutch wind-mill)
  • Spekhoek
  • Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer
    Deventer
    Deventer is a municipality and city in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel. Deventer is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen Deventer is a municipality and city in...

  • Terwolde
  • Teuge (with an airfield, where parachuting
    Parachuting
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     is taught)
  • Twello
    Twello
    Twello is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Voorst, about southwest of Deventer.Twello is a village between the cities Deventer and Apeldoorn...

    , half-way between Apeldoorn and Deventer, which is the main village of the municipality, having over 11,000 inhabitants; the town-hall, some industry, most schools, a railway station, a shopping centre etc. can be found there
  • Voorst, an old village along the road between Apeldoorn
    Apeldoorn
    Apeldoorn is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, about 60 miles south east of Amsterdam, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a regional centre and has 155,000 . The municipality of Apeldoorn, including villages like Beekbergen, Loenen and Hoenderloo, has over 155,000...

     and Zutphen, with a beautiful old church; 1 mile south of Voorst, another small railroad station was opened in 2006
  • Wilp, a tiny village on the IJssel
    IJssel
    River IJssel , sometimes called Gelderse IJssel to avoid confusion with its Hollandse IJssel namesake in the west of the Netherlands, is a branch of the Rhine in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel...

     opposite to Deventer; it has a small, very old church and a hospital for mentally handicapped people; the village already existed in 768; Saint Lebuinus
    Lebuinus
    Lebuinus , Apostle of the Frisians and patron of Deventer .-Life:Lebuinus was a monk in Wilfrid's monastery at Ripon...

    built a chapel there; the name is allegedly derived from wel-apa that is: well-water; it is possible, that prehistoric Celtic or Germanic people worshipped a holy well there.
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