Apeldorn

Apeldorn, a flourishing town of the Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland, 17 miles N. of Arnheim. The Loo, a royal hunting-lodge, beloved of William of Orange, is in the neighbourhood. There are no less than forty paper-mills in Apeldorn, most of the paper manufactured being sent to the East Indies. Other industries are agriculture, grinding corn, copper-founding, and manufacturing blankets and coarse woollen cloth. Pop. 16,283.