Voorst

Voorst, camping-farm de Adelaar|thumb|280px|right Voorst () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.

== Population centres == Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken) Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small lake and beach) De Kar (near a motorway junction (A1, Amsterdam- Berlin) De Vecht De Wijk Gietelo (castle ruin of Nijenbeek on the IJssel dyke) Klarenbeek (partly in the municipality Apeldoorn; small railroad station) Klein-Amsterdam Nijbroek Posterenk (also near the A1, with an old Dutch wind-mill) Spekhoek Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer Terwolde Teuge (with an airfield, where parachuting is taught) 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 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 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.