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Storvreta is a locality in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 6,347 inhabitants in 2010. It is located 15 kilometers north of Uppsala.HistoryPrehistoryArcheological investigations have found Stone Age and Bronze Age habitations and grave fields in the area. Although some of the graves found near today's village may be from the Mesolithic or Neolithic era, most of the habitable land had not risen from the sea following the most recent Ice Age until the centuries around 2000 BC.Agricultural villageFor thousands of years, the inhabitants in the area were farmers, making their living off the fertile land which had formerly been below the sea level. In 1539, under the reign of Gustav Vasa, a land register was made for Rasbo Hundred, in which Storvreta was mentioned. The village then included four agricultural properties (hemman) according to the register, although it is possible that smaller farms were taxed together and counted as one property. In connection with the laga skiftet, an agrarian reform from 1827 aiming to create larger areas of arable land, which was carried out in Rasbo Hundred in 1851-1852, ten agricultural properties were recorded in Storvreta village. In addition, there were a few smaller farms and torps (crofts) belonging to Storvreta, including a soldattorp for a tenement soldier.