Voorst

[[Media:Nl-Voorst.ogg|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.