Veauville-lès-Baons
Location of Veauville-lès-Baons
Veauville-lès-Baons is located in France
Veauville-lès-Baons
Veauville-lès-Baons
Veauville-lès-Baons is located in Normandy
Veauville-lès-Baons
Veauville-lès-Baons
Coordinates: 49°39′14″N 0°46′03″E / 49.6539°N 0.7675°E / 49.6539; 0.7675
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementRouen
CantonYvetot
CommuneLes Hauts-de-Caux
Area
1
7.96 km2 (3.07 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)[1]
711
  Density89/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
76190
Elevation118–152 m (387–499 ft)
(avg. 145 m or 476 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Veauville-lès-Baons is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts-de-Caux.[2]

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the C5 with the D37 road. The A29 autoroute passes through the commune's borders.

Population

Historical population of Veauville-lès-Baons
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population301327528672725717671
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Austreberthe, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the fifteenth century.
  • A sixteenth-century stone cross at the crossroads.
  • A 30-foot high granite cross, erected in 1874.

Notable people

Claudine Loquen(1965-), painter and sculptor has lived in Veauville-lès-Baons (from 1976 to 2007)

See also

References


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