Wojnowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship
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Wojnowo w 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 administrative district of Gmina Murowana Goślina
Gmina Murowana Goslina
Gmina Murowana Goślina is an urban-rural gmina in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Murowana Goślina, which lies approximately north of the regional capital Poznań. The gmina consists of Murowana Goślina and the countryside and villages...

, within Poznań County
Poznan County
Poznań County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Poznań, although the city...

, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Wielkopolska Voivodeship , or Greater Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno Voivodeships, pursuant to the Polish local government reforms adopted in 1998...

, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north of Murowana Goślina
Murowana Goslina
Murowana Goślina is a town in Poznań County in western Poland, with 10,336 inhabitants . It lies approximately north of the major city of Poznań, on the main road and railway line to Wągrowiec...

 and 27 km (17 mi) north of the regional capital Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

. In 2004 it had a population of 387. It was first mentioned in written records in 1325.

Wojnowo is situated close to Lake Wojnowskie, between Długa Goślina and Łopuchowo. It has a palace, built in 1836 in neo-Renaissance style, set in 5 hectares of grounds (in private ownership). There is also a chapel, and a mile-long avenue of lime trees (along the road to Łopuchowo). A collective farm operated during the communist era, but many of its buildings are now in disrepair. There was also formerly a distillery in the village.

About 2 km to the north-east lies the village of Wojnówko
Wojnówko, Poznan County
Wojnówko is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Murowana Goślina, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north of the village of Wojnowo, north-east of Murowana Goślina, and north of the regional capital Poznań...

, which consists largely of a complex of vacation properties
Vacation property
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on the banks of Lake Łomno.
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