Bacqueville-en-Caux

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Bacqueville-en-Caux
Bacqueville-en-Caux Coat of Arms
Bacqueville-en-Caux (France)
Bacqueville-en-Caux
region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Luneray
Community association Terroir de Caux
Coordinates 49 ° 47 '  N , 1 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 1 ° 0'  E
height 45-124 m
surface 12.19 km 2
Residents 1,901 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 156 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 76730
INSEE code
Website http://www.bacqueville-en-caux.com/

Bacqueville-en-Caux is a French commune with 1,901 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Seine-Maritime in the region Normandy . It belongs to the Arrondissement Dieppe and the canton Luneray (until 2015: canton Bacqueville-en-Caux ). The inhabitants are called Bacquevillais .

geography

Bacqueville-en-Caux is located about 14 kilometers south of the English Channel coast and about 15 kilometers south-southwest of Dieppe in the Pays de Caux . Bacqueville-en-Caux is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Hermanville in the north and north-west, Auppegard in the north-east, Bertreville-Saint-Ouen in the east and north-east, Omonville in the south-east, Lamberville in the south, Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger in the south-west, and Royville in the West and southwest and Lammerville to the west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 1,720 1,665 1,605 1,707 1,640 1,640 1,784 1,840

Attractions

  • Saint-Pierre church from the 16th century
  • Saint-Eutrope church in Pierreville from 1768
  • Cross Saint-Léonard and Cross Mangea-La each from the 13th century
  • Rectory from the 17th century
  • two mansions from the 16th century
  • Bacqueville Castle and park from the 18th century

Community partnerships

Scharnebeck in Lower Saxony has been a partner municipality of Bacqueville-en-Caux since 1974.

Trivia

The fictional English characters in Arthur Conan Doyles' Sherlock Holmes - The Dog of the Baskervilles and William von Baskerville in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose were derived from the medieval place name Bascavilla ; thereafter the Lords of Bascavilla are said to have been assigned land in Herefordshire after the Battle of Hastings.

Individual evidence

  1. Entry about the partnerships on the homepage of the Samtgemeinde Scharnebeck.Retrieved on April 27, 2019, 10:36 pm

Web links

Commons : Bacqueville-en-Caux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files