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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Canton
  
Caudebec-en-Caux

Area
  
51.14 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 6:49 PM

Region
  
Normandy

Arrondissement
  
Rouen

Intercommunality
  
Caux-Vallée de Seine

Population
  
890 (1999)

Vatteville-la-Rue

Weather
  
14°C, Wind W at 6 km/h, 67% Humidity

Vatteville-la-Rue is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Contents

Map of 76940 Vatteville-la-Rue, France

Geography

A village of forestry and farming situated in a meander of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 22 miles (35 km) west of Rouen on the D65 and D40. The area is popular for the hunting of boar and deer. There is also considerable sand and gravel extraction at the large quarries.

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The chapel of St. Maur, also dating from the sixteenth century.
  • Traces of several Roman villas in the forest of Brotonne.
  • The ruins of a castle destroyed in 1123.
  • Vestiges of the chateau of Quesney.
  • A seventeenth-century windmill, in ruins.

    • People

  • Philosopher Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007) is buried here.

    • References

    Vatteville-la-Rue Wikipedia
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