Lynge

Lynge is a town in the western part of Allerod Municipality, North Zealand, some 30 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Today Lynge has grown together with the neighbouring village of Uggeløse into a small urban area with a population of 4,053 1 January 2016. The first known reference to the name Lynge is in a gift letter from Canute the Holy to the Bishop Seat in Lund. The reference is to Lynge Herred but hundreds were usually named after settlements.. That the hundred was named after Lynge may indicate that the medieval road from Roskilde to central North Zealand by way of Værebro also passed Lynge.

In the 12th and 13th century, the area was dominated by the influential Hvide family. A fortified house, Langesøhus later referred to as Borre, owned by the family, was in the Middle Ages located south of present-day Uggeløse Skov. The Hvide family seems to have left the area in about 1300. The first known reference to Uggeløse is from 15 October 1252.