Le Héron

Le Héron
Le Héron
Location within Upper Normandy region Le Héron
Coordinates: 49°29′51″N 1°23′39″E / 49.4975°N 1.3942°E / 49.4975; 1.3942Coordinates: 49°29′51″N 1°23′39″E / 49.4975°N 1.3942°E / 49.4975; 1.3942
Country	France
Region	Upper Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Darnétal
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Monts et de l'Andelle
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Jean-Pierre Bisson
Area¹	10.72 km² (4.14 sq mi)
Population (2011)²	242
• Density	23/km² (58/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76358 / 76780
Elevation	62–183 m (203–600 ft) (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
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.

Le Héron is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France.

Geography

A small forestry and farming village situated at the confluence of the small Héron river with the Andelle, some 16 miles (26 km) east of Rouen at the junction of the D 13, D 46 and the D 62 roads.

Population

Historical population of Le Héron
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004	2006	2009	2011
Population	259	233	239	242	236	231	248	242	245	242
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

An eighteenth-century château and its park.
The seventeenth-century fortified manorhouse at Malvoisine. Manoir de Malvoisine also appeared in the movie Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!).
A nineteenth-century chapel.
The remains of the church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Gilles, dating from the twelfth century, burnt down in 1879.

References

INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Héron.

Le Héron on the Quid website (French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department