Edshultshall

Edshultshall has never been a major fishing village. The records from the home parish visits through 1789-94 show that seven families where living in Edshultshall at the time. In 1803 the village had eleven homes, ten sheds, four boat sheds and four buildings for the production of fish oil. The remains of the ponds that where used for for the slag byproduct are still to be seen today.

A large period for Edshultshall was Icelandic herring fishing. At the peak there where 13 boats from Edshultshall working with this type of fishing.

Despite the hardship for many of the coastal villages during the second world war, Edshultshall survived. As late as 1950´s nearly all workers in the village were fishermen.

Edshultshall went from being a small fishing village at the end of 1700 to becoming a fairly large shipping village right up until 1985 when the shipping ended and the last freight ship Windö was sold. Two years later the 3 masted schooner Westkust took the place at the pier.

The closest grocery store, restaurant, bar, museum, galleries etc are located in Mollösund which are about 6 km south.