Voorst () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.
Population centres
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Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken)
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Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small lake and beach)
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De Kar (near a motorway junction (A1, Amsterdam- Berlin)
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De Vecht
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De Wijk
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Gietelo (castle ruin of Nijenbeek on the IJssel dyke)
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Klarenbeek (partly in the municipality Apeldoorn; small railroad station)
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Klein-Amsterdam
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Nijbroek
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Posterenk (also near the A1, with an old Dutch wind-mill)
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Spekhoek
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Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer
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Terwolde
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Teuge (with an airfield, where parachuting is taught)
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Twello, half-way between Apeldoorn and Deventer, which is the main village of the municipality, having over 11,000 inhabitants; the town-hall, some industry, most schools, a railway station, a shopping centre etc. can be found there
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Voorst, an old village along the road between Apeldoorn and Zutphen, with a beautiful old church; 1 mile south of Voorst, another small railroad station was opened in 2006
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Wilp, a tiny village on the IJssel opposite to Deventer; it has a small, very old church and a hospital for mentally handicapped people; the village already existed in 768; Saint Lebuinus built a chapel there; the name is allegedly derived from wel-apa that is: well-water; it is possible, that prehistoric Celtic or Germanic people worshipped a holy well there.
Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voorst, June 2015
Notable people
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Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele (1806 in Voorst – 1890) the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1861/1866
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Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans (1812 in Wilp - 1875) a Dutch organist, composer and music theorist
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Anthony Winkler Prins (1817 in Voorst – 1908) a Dutch writer of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia.
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Willem Anne Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1834 in Voorst – 1889) a Dutch baron and politician
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Jan Terlouw (born 1931 in Kamperveen) a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author
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Evert Jan Baerends (born 1945 in Voorst) a Dutch theoretical chemist and academic
Sport
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Jan-Dirk Nijkamp (born 1964 in Voorst) a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
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Jurgen Streppel (born 1969 in Voorst) a retired football player with 373 club caps
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Robert Horstink (born 1981 in Twello) a volleyball player, competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics
Gallery
File:Terwolde-lochemsestraat-07080005.jpg|Terwolde, Lochemsestraat
File:Voorst gemeentehuis.jpg|Voorst gemeentehuis
File:Voorst; Maite Duval.jpg|De gans, Voorst
File:De IJssel - panoramio.jpg|The IJssel near Bussloo
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