Ljungby

Ljungby lies in the Lagan valley in western Småland, where north–south and east–west routes met. The nearby Replösa runestone commemorates Astrad, a leading freeholder of Finnveden, and a stone church was built in the parish in the twelfth century. A hostelry on the Lagan road was established by royal decree in the fourteenth century. Ljungby remained a small village of five farms in 1828, when it was selected as the site of a new market town; its plan laid out streets at right angles.