Venneshamn is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the municipality of Mosvik

Mosvik

Mosvik is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mosvik...

 in Nord-Trøndelag

Nord-Trøndelag

is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...

 county, 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...

. It is located along the Trondheimsfjord

Trondheimsfjord

The Trondheimsfjord , an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third longest fjord at long. It is located in the west central part of the country, and it stretches from Ørland in west to Steinkjer in north, passing the city of Trondheim on its way...

 on the west side of Mosvik. It is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the municipal center of Mosvik, and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the village of Kjerringvika and the Skarnsund Bridge

Skarnsund Bridge

Skarnsund Bridge is a long concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Skarnsundet sound, in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. When finished in 1991, it replaced the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry and it gives the communities in Mosvik and Leksvik easier access to the central areas of Innherred...

 that connects Mosvik to Inderøy

Inderøy

Inderøy is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages include Gangstadhaugen, Hylla, Kjerknesvågen, Røra, Sakshaug, Sandvollan, Småland, Utøy, and Vangshylla.The...

. The village of Framverran

Framverran

Framverran is a village in the municipality of Mosvik in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about from the municipal center of Mosvik, about northwest of the village of Venneshamn, and about northeast of Trongsundet....

 lies about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of Venneshamn. Verran Sparebank

Verran Sparebank

Verran Sparebank was a Norwegian savings bank, located at Venneshamn in Mosvik municipality from 1907 to 2006. It merged with Grong Sparebank in 2006, who took over its assets and local customers...

 (Norway's smallest bank) was based in Venneshamn until 2006 when it merged together with Grong Sparebank

Grong Sparebank

Grong Sparebank is a Norwegian savings bank based in Grong. The bank is affiliated with the Terra-Gruppen alliance and has branch offices in Grong, Harran, Namsos, Røyrvik, Lierne, Steinkjer and Mosvik. Total assets are NOK 1,269 million.-History:...

. There was also a general store until August 2008.

The port of Venneshamn had a scheduled ferry service for many years. In 1958, the car ferry company Innherredsferja

Innherredsferja

Innherredsferja AS was a Norwegian ferry operator in the Trondheimsfjord in Nord-Trøndelag county. It operated the Levanger–Hokstad Ferry between the town of Levanger and the island of Ytterøya, and the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry between Inderøy and Mosvik...

 started the Levanger

Levanger

Levanger is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger...

–Hokstad

Hokstad

Hokstad is a village on the island of Ytterøya in the municipality of Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is the largest settlement on the island. The village has a ferry quay that serves the Levanger–Hokstad Ferry that connects the island to the town of Levanger on the mainland. ...

–Vangshylla

Vangshylla

Vangshylla is a village in the municipality of Inderøy in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the southwest end of the Inderøy peninsula in the Utøy area, surrounded on two sides by the Trondheimsfjord. It sits at the southern end of the Skarnsund strait. Until 1991, when the...

–Kjerringvika–Venneshamn Ferry, connecting the village to roads at Mosvik, Inderøy, Ytterøy

Ytterøy

Ytterøy is a former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It originally encompassed the island of Ytterøya and parts of the mainland to the northwest of the island on the west side of the Trondheimsfjord. The island is located in the present-day municipality of Levanger which is located...

, and Levanger

Levanger

Levanger is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherred region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger...

. In 1964, a county road was completed from Kjerringvika to Venneshamn, granting the settlement road access to the municipal center.