Bjelland og Grindum

Bjelland og Grindum Municipality
Bjelland og Grindum herred
Vest-Agder within Norway
Bjelland og Grindum within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°26′24″N 07°25′02″E / 58.44000°N 7.41722°E / 58.44000; 7.41722
CountryNorway
CountyVest-Agder
DistrictSørlandet
Established1 Jan 1838
  Created asFormannskapsdistrikt
Disestablished1 Jan 1902
  Succeeded byBjelland and Grindheim municipalities
Administrative centreBjelland
Area
 (upon dissolution)
  Total
294 km2 (114 sq mi)
Population
 (1902)
  Total
1,816
  Density6.2/km2 (16/sq mi)
DemonymsBjelldøl
Grinddøl
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-1024

Bjelland og Grindum (or sometimes Bjelland og Grindheim) is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Bjelland where Bjelland Church is located. The 294-square-kilometre (114 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1902. It was located in the Mandalen valley in the northern parts of the present-day municipalities of Lyngdal and Lindesnes in what is now Agder county.