Stocksundet

Coordinates: 59°23′00″N 18°02′26″E / 59.38333°N 18.04056°E / 59.38333; 18.04056

Stocksundet as seen from Stocksund, March 2010. View towards Bergshamra. To the right is a pylon for the original railway bridge.

The new railway bridge for Roslagsbanan over Stocksundet.

Stocksundet is the water connecting Lilla Värtan with Edsviken, and is the border between Danderyd Municipality and Solna Municipality in Sweden.

The sound is supposed to have received its name from the logs (Swedish: "stock") which used to be laid out in the water to stop invading ships in the early Middle Ages. This name then led to the name of Stocksund, on the north side of the sound, and to the heraldry shield of Stocksund Municipality 1955-1966.

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