Veauville-lès-Baons
Veauville-lès-Baons | |
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Part of Les Hauts-de-Caux | |
_mairie.jpg) Town hall | |
Location of Veauville-lès-Baons | |
  Veauville-lès-Baons Location within France  Veauville-lès-Baons Location within Normandy | |
| Coordinates: 49°39′14″N 0°46′03″E / 49.6539°N 0.7675°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Rouen |
| Canton | Yvetot |
| Commune | Les Hauts-de-Caux |
Area 1 | 7.96 km2 (3.07 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[1] | 677 |
| • Density | 85.1/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 76190 |
| Elevation | 118–152 m (387–499 ft) (avg. 145 m or 476 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Veauville-lès-Baons (French pronunciation: [vovil lɛ bɑ̃], lit. 'Veauville near Baons') is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts-de-Caux.[2]
Geography
A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the C5 with the D37 road. The A29 autoroute passes through the commune's borders.
Places of interest
- The church of St. Austreberthe, dating from the sixteenth century.
- The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the fifteenth century.
- A sixteenth-century stone cross at the crossroads.
- A 30-foot high granite cross, erected in 1874.
Notable people
Claudine Loquen(1965-), painter and sculptor has lived in Veauville-lès-Baons (from 1976 to 2007)
See also
References
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" [Reference populations 2023] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2025.
- ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 19 December 2018 (in French)
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