Donville-les-Bains

Donville-les-Bains
Commune

The beach at Donville-les-Bains
Donville-les-Bains

Coordinates: 48°50′48″N 1°34′52″W / 48.8467°N 1.581°W / 48.8467; -1.581Coordinates: 48°50′48″N 1°34′52″W / 48.8467°N 1.581°W / 48.8467; -1.581
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Manche
Arrondissement Avranches
Canton Granville
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays granvillais
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean-Paul Launay
Area1 2.75 km2 (1.06 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 3,309
 • Density 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 50165 /50350
Elevation 0–68 m (0–223 ft)
Website www.ville-donville-les-bains.fr

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.

Donville-les-Bains is a commune in the Manche department in northwestern France.

Introduction

Donville-les-Bains is located just outside Granville, a port on the Norman coast noted for ferry traffic to the Channel Islands. Rail service is available from Granville to Paris on a regular basis provided by SNCF, the French National Railway.

The town is also the origin of the English language surname Dunville (originally Donville), which is found throughout the UK and former British colonies. People descended from this Norman line can be found in concentrations around Toronto, Thunder Bay, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and South Carolina. (However, Dunville, Newfoundland was not named after Donville-les-Bains; Dunville was named after the founding Dunphy family.)

Heraldry

 The arms of Donville-les-Bains are blazoned :
Gules, a sea-horse [i.e. a mythical hippocampus], and in chief a sun of 8 points Or.

See also

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