Digulleville

Digulleville
local community	La Hague
region	Normandy
Department	Some
Arrondissement	Cherbourg
Coordinates	49 ° 42 ′  N , 1 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′  N , 1 ° 52 ′  W
Post Code	50440
Former INSEE code	50163
Incorporation	January 1, 2017
status	Commune déléguée
Website	http://www.digulleville.fr
Semaphore, at Pointe Jardeheu

Digulleville is a village and a former French commune with 259 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Manche department in the Normandy region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Cherbourg and the Canton of La Hague . The inhabitants call themselves Digullevillais .

With effect from January 1, 2017, the previous municipality of Digullevill was merged with the other 18 municipalities of the former Communauté de communes de la Hague to form a Commune nouvelle with the name La Hague and has the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are in Beaumont-Hague.

geography

Digulleville is located on the English Channel coast on the Cotentin peninsula , in the La Hague landscape , in the Armorican massif . The village consists of a single street (Rue Désert) and scattered hamlets. Adjacent parishes were Omonville-la-Rogue in the east, Beaumont-Hague in the south, Herqueville in the southwest, and Omonville-la-Petite in the west.

Toponymy

Digulevilla 1163

Digulleville is derived from the Gaelic first name Decuil and the ending -ville ( farm ).

It is also found in the former place name Digulstonga in Iceland .

history

The human presence in Digulleville is old. The presence of tumuli and the discovery of bronze coins bear witness to a Celtic settlement before the Roman invasion.

Sites

• Several pit-shaped hearths from around 4700 BC were discovered next to Pointe Jardeheu .
• The hamlet of Raumarais is home to two sites that date back to the early Middle Neolithic . The finds (pottery, small scrapers made of flint) suggest a probably seasonal stopover for hunting and fishing.
• Excavations in the bay of La Gravette have revealed hearths from the Iron Age.

economy

The controversial La Hague reprocessing plant is located on part of Digulleville . The Center de Stockage de la Manche is adjacent to the recycling plant . The industrial zone is operated by the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Cherbourg-Cotentin . About 30 companies are based there.

Attractions

• Boscq manor; Douville Manor.
• Saint-Paterne Church, Romanesque church from the 13th century. The church is dedicated to Saint-Paterne, formerly Bishop of Avranches .
• Semaphore of Jardeheu at Pointe Jardeheu. Today it is no longer a semaphore, but a gîte (accommodation for visitors).
• Hague-Dick , a Bronze Age rampart designed to secure access to the Cape of La Hague; it was added to the list of historical monuments on May 10, 1988.
• La Brasserie waterfall on the Sainte-Hélène river, which supplies the hamlet of La Brasserie with water.

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  Saint-Paterne church.

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  Hague-Dick.

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  Pointe jardy hay.

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  Sainte-Hélène waterfall.

Personalities

• Guillaume de Digulleville (* 1295 in Digulleville, † after 1358), monk and poet
• Bon Prosper Lepesqueur (* 1846 in Digulleville, † 1921), real name Polidor , marine draftsman in Cherbourg . He has written many songs in Norman ( Le Cordounyi , La Batterie de Serasin , Le Chendryi , La Parcie , Le Fisset ).

Digulleville in the movie

In 2005 the film Le Passager de l'été by Florence Moncorgé-Gabin was shot in the municipality.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Decree of the Prefecture of Arr. 2016-37 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle La Hague of September 27, 2016 .
2. ↑ René Lepelley. Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie . Pressus Universitaires de Caen . Page 110. ISBN 2-905461-80-2 .
3. ↑ "Un foyer you néolithique a été mis à jour», La Presse de la Manche , 4 août of 2008.
4. ↑ Cyril Marcigny et Emmanuel Ghesquière, Archeologie, histoire et anthropologie de la presqu'île de la Hague (Manche): analyze sur la longue durée d'un espace naturel et social cohérent , Communauté de communes de la Hague, 2005.
5. ^ "  Les Âges des métaux  ", site de la mairie
6. ^ Site communal - Le tissu industriel .
7. ^ Retranchement dit Le Hague Dike in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French).
8. ↑ Le Hague-Dick website Wikimanche (French).