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Fontaine le Bourg

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Population (2006)
  
1,496

Local time
  
Tuesday 3:57 AM

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Clères

Area
  
12.2 km²

Arrondissement
  
Rouen

Fontaine-le-Bourg

Intercommunality
  
Portes Nord-Ouest de Rouen

Weather
  
3°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 97% Humidity

Fontaine-le-Bourg is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Contents

Map of 76690 Fontaine-le-Bourg, France

Geography

A village of farming and a little light industry, situated by the banks of the Cailly River in the Pays de Caux, some 10 miles (16 km) north of Rouen, at the junction of the D53, D44 and the D151 roads.

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eleventh century.
  • Ruins of a 16th-century château.
  • A sixteenth century manor house.
  • A memorial, erected in 1958 to commemorate an early motor car journey.
  • A sixteenth century fountain.
  • Old watermills and cotton mills alongside the river.
  • A sandstone cross from the seventeenth century.

    • Notable people

    Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.

    References

    Fontaine-le-Bourg Wikipedia
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