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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Canton
  
Bacqueville-en-Caux

Area
  
12.19 km²

Region
  
Normandy

Arrondissement
  
Dieppe

Intercommunality
  
CC Terroir de Caux

Local time
  
Monday 11:09 PM

Bacqueville-en-Caux

Weather
  
4°C, Wind SW at 29 km/h, 79% Humidity

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Bacqueville-en-Caux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Contents

Map of 76730 Bacqueville-en-Caux, France

Geography

A farming village in the valley of the Vienne river, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village. (Fictional references include the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in Herefordshire after the Battle of Hastings and he held Eardisley Castle in that county.

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century
  • The twentieth century war memorial
  • Two 13th-century stone crosses
  • The church of St. Eutrope, dating from the nineteenth century
  • The park and château of Bacqueville dating from the eighteenth century
  • Two 16th century manorhouses
  • A seventeenth century presbytery

    • References

    Bacqueville-en-Caux Wikipedia
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