Allouville-Bellefosse

Summary

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

Allouville-Bellefosse
Thousand-year-old oak tree
Thousand-year-old oak tree
Location of Allouville-Bellefosse
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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.

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.

External links edit

  • Official website of Allouville-Bellefosse (in French)