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Country
  
Department
  
Population (2008)
  
470

Local time
  
Wednesday 8:41 AM

Region
  
Canton
  
Caumont-l'Éventé

Area
  
8.39 km²

Arrondissement
  
Hottot-les-Bagues

Intercommunality
  
Villers-Bocage Intercom

Weather
  
9°C, Wind NW at 3 km/h, 96% Humidity

Hottot-les-Bagues is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Map of 14250 Hottot-les-Bagues, France

Geography

Hottot-les-Bagues lies 14 kilometres southeast of Bayeux.

History

The fiefdom of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo. Many of the remaining place names are of Norse origin. Hottot is believed to have taken its name from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound or low hill.

During World War II, the Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Within the surrounding district, there was much heavy fighting through June and July 1944 as Commonwealth forces tried to press on from Bayeux in an encircling movement to the south of Caen.

Military cemetery

Hottot-les-Bagues military cemetery contains some 1,137 graves belonging to 965 British soldiers, 34 Canadians, 3 Australians, 2 New Zealanders and 1 South African, together with 132 German soldiers. Most of the war dead lost their lives in the second fortnight of June 1944, in the furious fighting around Tilly-sur-Seulles. The cemetery can be reached from Bayeux by taking the D6 southeast. After passing through Tilly-sur-Seulles, turn westward at Juvigny onto the main road (the D9) that runs from Caen towards Caumont l'Evente.

References

Hottot-les-Bagues Wikipedia


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