Le Mesnil-Lieubray
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Location within Upper Normandy region  Le Mesnil-Lieubray | |
| Coordinates: 49°31′21″N 1°30′30″E / 49.5225°N 1.5083°ECoordinates: 49°31′21″N 1°30′30″E / 49.5225°N 1.5083°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Dieppe |
| Canton | Argueil |
| Intercommunality | Monts et de l'Andelle |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jérôme Grisel |
| Area1 | 5.94 km2 (2.29 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 93 |
| • Density | 16/km2 (41/sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76431 / 76780 |
| Elevation |
90–214 m (295–702 ft) (avg. 115 m or 377 ft) |
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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 Mesnil-Lieubray is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.
Geography
A small farming village situated by the banks of the Andelle river in the Pays de Bray, some 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Rouen at the junction of the D921 and the D57 roads.
Heraldry
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The arms of Le Mesnil-Lieubray are blazoned : Quarterly 1: Gules, a bunch of grapes slipped and lived Or; 2: Azure, a saw blade argent; 3: Azure, 2 barrulets argent; and 4: Gules, an apple slipped and leaved Or; overall on an inescutcheon Or, a latin cross of 9 fusils gules. (The saw blade here is a fess indented on the bottom side only) |
Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Population | 80 | 114 | 106 | 105 | 82 | 65 | 93 |
| 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
- The church of St.Geneviève, dating from the thirteenth century.
- A fourteenth-century fortified manorhouse called the Château de la Reine Blanche (allegedly owned by Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan).
See also
References
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