Torpshammar
Encyclopedia
Torpshammar is a locality situated in Ånge Municipality
, Västernorrland County
, Sweden
with 493 inhabitants in 2005. It was founded in 1797 as an iron
milling community.
Ånge Municipality
Ånge Municipality is a municipality in Västernorrland County, northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Ånge.The railway junction Ånge was in 1947 made a market town and detached from Borgsjö...
, Västernorrland County
Västernorrland County
Västernorrland County is a county or län in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia.- Province :...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 493 inhabitants in 2005. It was founded in 1797 as an iron
Iron
Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...
milling community.