Angoville, Calvados

Angoville is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Cesny-les-Sources.[2]

Angoville
Part of Cesny-les-Sources
The road into Angoville
Location of Angoville
Angoville
Angoville
Coordinates: 48°56′45″N 0°22′39″W
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementCaen
CantonThury-Harcourt
CommuneCesny-les-Sources
Area
1
3.72 km2 (1.44 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
27
 • Density7.3/km2 (19/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
14220
Elevation173–248 m (568–814 ft)
(avg. 220 m or 720 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Angovillais or Angovillaises[3]

Geography

Angoville is located some 30 km south of Caen and 10 km east by south-east of Thury-Harcourt. The D6 road from Thury-Harcourt to Ussy forms the northern border of the commune. Access to the commune is by the D241 road from Tréprel in the south which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues north to join the D6 on the border. The commune is mostly farmland with an area of forest in the south which is part of the large Bois de Saint-Claire.[4]

History

Toponymy

Angoville is composed of the old French "ville" (from the Latin "Villae") meaning a rural area or village and a Scandinavian name Asgaut (or Asgautr),[5] gallicized to Asgot, Ansgot, Angot, and Ango - originally the Norman surname Ango[6] and Angot[7] which are widespread in Seine-Maritime.

Administration
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors of Angoville[8]

FromToNamePartyPosition
??Louis-Aimable Auvray[9]Farmer
??M. Pourdais (Father)
?2001Guy Bourdais
20012014Daniel SimonSEFarmer
20142019Éric SohierSEEditor

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017, the commune had 27 inhabitants.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 203—    
1800 102−9.36%
1806 212+12.97%
1821 159−1.90%
1831 140−1.26%
1836 138−0.29%
1841 136−0.29%
1846 126−1.52%
1851 110−2.68%
1856 110+0.00%
1861 104−1.12%
1866 98−1.18%
1872 97−0.17%
1876 100+0.76%
1881 97−0.61%
1886 86−2.38%
1891 87+0.23%
1896 80−1.66%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 80+0.00%
1906 80+0.00%
1911 71−2.36%
1921 71+0.00%
1926 54−5.33%
1931 50−1.53%
1936 60+3.71%
1946 44−3.05%
1954 53+2.35%
1962 64+2.39%
1968 51−3.71%
1975 45−1.77%
1982 40−1.67%
1990 29−3.94%
1999 30+0.38%
2007 31+0.41%
2012 33+1.26%
Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE[11]

Economy

The main activities are dairy farming and cropping.

Culture and heritage
A street in Angoville

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

  • Houses and Farms (18th-19th century)[12]
  • A Farmhouse (1786)[13]
  • The Saint Anne Fountain (1848)[14]
  • The Town Hall (19th century)[15]
  • The Motte de Rouvrou Fortified Site (11th century)[16]

Religious heritage
The Church of Saint Anne

The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

  • The Tomb of the Rabâche family (19th century)[17]
  • The Tomb of Jean-François Rabâche (1816)[18]
  • The Tomb of Priest François Bouquet (1813)[19]
  • The Parish Church of Saint-Anne (12th century)[20]

See also

References
  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. Arrêté préfectoral 24 September 2018, p. 124 (in French)
  3. Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)
  4. Google Maps
  5. National Scientific Research Centre (France), Annals of Normandy, Volume 52, Nos. 1 to 5, Regional Ethnographic Laboratory, 2002 (in French)
  6. Ango in Géopatronyme website (in French)
  7. Angot in Géopatronyme website (in French)
  8. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  9. Annual of the department of la Manche, 12th edition, 1840, p 223
  10. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Angoville, EHESS. (in French)
  11. Populations légales 2012, INSEE
  12. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000570 Houses and Farms (in French)
  13. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000569 Farmhouse (in French)
  14. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000568 Saint Anne Fountain (in French)
  15. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000564 Town Hall (in French)
  16. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000568 Motte de Rouvrou Fortified Site (in French)
  17. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000567 Tomb of the Rabâche family (in French)
  18. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000566 Tomb of Jean-François Rabâche (in French)
  19. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000565 Tomb of Priest François Bouquet (in French)
  20. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000562 Parish Church of Saint-Anne (in French)
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