Fosser is a village in the municipality of Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland

Aurskog-Høland is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bjørkelangen.- Name :...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Its population (2007) is 578. Fosser had a station on the Urskog-Hølandsbanen

Urskog-Hølandsbanen

The Urskog–Høland Line , also known as Tertitten, is a narrow gauge railway between Sørumsand and Skulerud in Norway.-History:The original line was long and was built in three stages: Urskogbanen opened in 1896, running from Bingsfossen to Bjørkelangen; Hølandsbanen from Bjørkelangen to Skulerud...

from the opening of the Hølandsbanen in 1898 and until the line was closed down in 1960.

The village derives its name from the local waterfall (waterfall = foss in Norwegian). The waterfall flows from the lake "Øversjøen" into "Fossersjøen" this lake is localy known for large Pike.