Bacqueville-en-Caux

Bacqueville-en-Caux
Bacqueville-en-Caux
Administration
Country France
Region Upper Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Bacqueville-en-Caux
Intercommunality Saâne et Vienne
Mayor Étienne Delarue
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 45–124 m (148–407 ft)
(avg. 92 m/302 ft)
Land area1 12.19 km2 (4.71 sq mi)
Population2 1,806  (2006)
 - Density 148 /km2 (380 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76051/ 76730
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bacqueville-en-Caux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

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Geography

A farming village in the valley of the Vienne river, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

Population

Historical population of Bacqueville-en-Caux
Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
Population 1720 1665 1605 1707 1640 1649 1806
From the year 1962 on: population without double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village. (Fictional references include the Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle and William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in the Herefordshire after the battle of Hastings and he held Eardisley Castle.

Heraldry

The arms of Bacqueville-en-Caux are blazoned :
Or, 3 hammers gules.

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