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Saint Jouin Bruneval

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
1,576 (1999)

Arrondissement
  
Le Havre

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Criquetot-l'Esneval

Area
  
18.82 km²

Local time
  
Tuesday 9:59 PM

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Intercommunality
  
Canton of Criquetot-l'Esneval

Weather
  
12°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 79% Humidity

Saint-Jouin-Bruneval is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

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Map of Saint-Jouin-Bruneval, France

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 14 miles (23 km) north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D940, D139 and D111 roads. France’s 2nd largest oil-tanker port (built 1973-1975) and oil depot of ‘’Havre-Antifer’’ is entirely within the borders of the commune.

History

During World War II, Operation Biting (also known as the Bruneval Raid) was a successful Combined Operations raid to capture components of a German Würzburg radar set at La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer and evacuated by the Bruneval beach on 27/28 February 1942.

Places of interest

  • The eighteenth-century château de La Marguerite.
  • The monument commemorating the raid in 1942.
  • The church of St. Jouin, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The cliffs and the beach, a mixture of sand and pebbles.

    • References

    Saint-Jouin-Bruneval Wikipedia
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