Vardal

Vardal lies west of Lake Mjøsa amid the farms and wooded hills of the inland district. Its first church was a medieval stave church mentioned in fourteenth-century records. A replacement was consecrated in 1727, but lightning and fire destroyed it in 1801; another timber church was raised in 1803. Nearby at the mouth of the Hunnselva, a glassworks began production in 1807.