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Jumièges

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Intercommunality
  
Seine-Austreberthe

Area
  
18.75 km²

Arrondissement
  
Rouen

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Duclair

Population (2006)
  
1,736

Local time
  
Wednesday 4:18 PM

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Weather
  
16°C, Wind E at 6 km/h, 63% Humidity

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

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Map of 76480 Jumi%C3%A8ges, France

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some 21 kilometres (13 mi) west of Rouen, at the junction of the D65 and the D143 roads. A ferry service operates here, connecting the commune with the south and west sides of the river.

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Valentin, dating from the eleventh century.
  • The ruins of the tenth-century church of St.Pierre.
  • An eighteenth-century chapel.
  • Several lesser buildings dating from the eleventh century.

    • Jumièges Abbey

    It is best known as the site of Jumièges Abbey, a typical Norman abbey of the Romanesque period, and the home of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070. Now ruined, the abbey dates from 1067, when it was consecrated in the presence of William the Conqueror.

    People linked with the commune

  • Maurice Leblanc, writer.
  • Roger Martin du Gard, writer.

    • References

    Jumièges Wikipedia
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