Allouville-Bellefosse

Coordinates: 49°35′48″N 0°40′39″E / 49.596745°N 0.677449°E / 49.596745; 0.677449
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Allouville-Bellefosse
Thousand-year-old oak tree
Thousand-year-old oak tree
Location of Allouville-Bellefosse
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Allouville-Bellefosse is located in France
Allouville-Bellefosse
Allouville-Bellefosse
Allouville-Bellefosse is located in Normandy
Allouville-Bellefosse
Allouville-Bellefosse
Coordinates: 49°35′48″N 0°40′39″E / 49.596745°N 0.677449°E / 49.596745; 0.677449
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementRouen
CantonYvetot
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Didier Terrier[1]
Area
1
14.66 km2 (5.66 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
1,150
 • Density78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
76001 /76190
Elevation114–154 m (374–505 ft)
(avg. 148 m or 486 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Allouville-Bellefosse is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.

Geography[edit]

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D33, D34 and the D110 roads.

Population[edit]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 675—    
1975 661−0.30%
1982 903+4.56%
1990 1,007+1.37%
1999 986−0.23%
2007 1,044+0.72%
2012 1,180+2.48%
2017 1,157−0.39%
Source: INSEE[3]

Places of interest[edit]

  • The church of St.Quentin, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • Chêne chapelle, a 1000-year-old oak tree (the oldest in France). The tree houses two chapels, the lower dedicated to Notre Dame de la Paix and the upper called the Cellule de l'Eremite.[4]
  • The sixteenth-century abandoned church at Bellefosse.
  • A natural history museum.
  • The eighteenth-century château, in Louis XV style.
  • Two manorhouses, at Bellefosse and Ismenil.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. ^ Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert (1895). North-western France (Normandy and Brittany). G. Allen. p. 69.

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