| Official Name: | Valestrandfossen |
| Other Name: | Valestrandsfossen |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Vestland#Norway |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Norway |
| Subdivision Name1: | Western Norway |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vestland |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Nordhordland |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Osterøy |
| Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
| Area Total Km2: | 0.94 |
| Population As Of: | 2019 |
| Population Total: | 1303 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1386 |
| Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
| Postal Code: | 5281 Valestrandsfossen |
| Elevation M: | 17 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Coordinates: | 60.5056°N 5.4325°W |
Valestrandfossen[2] or Valestrandsfossen[3] is a village in the municipality of Osterøy, adjacent to Norway's second-largest city and municipality Bergen, Vestland county. It lies at Sørfjorden to the west and south of the municipal centre of Lonevåg. Sites worth mentioning include Hamre and Hamre Church.
Valestrandfossen has shops, a gas station, primary school, hairdressers, pubs, and Lerøy Fossen AS, the world's largest trout smokehouse. [4]
Valestrandfossen is the largest settlement on the whole island of Osterøy. The 0.94km2 village has a population (2019) of 1,303 and a population density of .[5] Located by the Sørfjorden, it has a regular ferry (the MF Ole Bull) that crosses the fjord to Åsane in Bergen.[6]
The famous Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull had his summer house here. In 1858, he bought a farm in Valestrand. The house was designed during 1865 by his youngest brother, architect Georg Andreas Bull. Ole Bull lived there for a time principally between tours. In 1872, he bought property on the island of Lysøen in what is now Bjørnafjorden Municipality, south of Bergen which became the primary residence of his family.