Liden
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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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