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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Intercommunality
  
CC Côte d'Albâtre

Area
  
13.57 km²

Arrondissement
  
Dieppe

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Cany-Barville

Population (2006)
  
3,226

Local time
  
Wednesday 3:47 PM

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind W at 34 km/h, 97% Humidity

Cany-Barville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

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Map of 76450 Cany-Barville, France

Geography

A farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Durdent in the Pays de Caux, some 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D925, D10 and the D268 roads.

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Siméon, at Barville, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The church of St. Martin, at Cany, dating from the thirteenth century.
  • The seventeenth-century chapel of St. Gilles and St. Leu
  • The seventeenth-century chateau de Cany, built between 1640 and 1656 by François Mansart, with its chapel and a park.
  • Remnants of a fortified manorhouse dating from the fourteenth century.
  • A feudal motte at Barville.
  • The fifteenth century watermill and museum.

    • Notable people

  • Louis Bouilhet, French poet, was born here.

    • References

    Cany-Barville Wikipedia
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