Liden

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Liden's Old Church from 1480, Liden, Medelpad, Sweden
Liden's Old Church from 1480, Liden, Medelpad, Sweden

Liden is village in Sundsvall Municipality, Sweden, 50 km (road 86) north west of the city of Sundsvall. Situated on the river Indalsälven.

The name Liden (Swedish; meaning "a long slope", down to the river) is earliest recorded as De Lidh in a letter from 1344, Liden's Old Church was build in the 1480s, by the Dominican monk Josefhus.

The Swedish noble family Lidströmer originates from Liden.

A few hundred meters above the Old Church is the New Church situated, inaugurated in 1858.

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