Bacqueville-en-Caux

Bacqueville-en-Caux
Bacqueville-en-Caux
	Commune
	Bacqueville-en-Caux railway station in 1913
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bacqueville-en-Caux
	Bacqueville-en-Caux Bacqueville-en-Caux
	Coordinates: 49°47′15″N 0°59′58″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Luneray
Intercommunality	CC Terroir de Caux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Étienne Delarue
Area 1	12.19 km2 (4.71 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	1,901
• Density	160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76051 /76730
Elevation	45–124 m (148–407 ft) ; (avg. 92 m or 302 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bacqueville-en-Caux (French pronunciation: [bakvil‿ɑ̃ ko]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the valley of the Vienne river, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

Population

Historical population of Bacqueville-en-Caux
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Population	1720	1665	1605	1707	1640	1649	1806	1840
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village, called sometimes Baskervilla, Bascervilla in ancient records.[2] (Fictional references include the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in Herefordshire after the Battle of Hastings and he held Eardisley Castle in that county.

Heraldry

Arms of Bacqueville-en-Caux	The arms of Bacqueville-en-Caux are blazoned : Or, 3 hammers gules.

Places of interest

The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century
The twentieth century war memorial
Two 13th-century stone crosses
The church of St. Eutrope, dating from the nineteenth century
The park and château of Bacqueville dating from the eighteenth century
Two 16th century manorhouses
A seventeenth century presbytery

References

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Beaurepaire (Charles de), Laporte (dom Jean), Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime, Paris, 1982-1984, p. 38

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Beaurepaire (Charles de), Laporte (dom Jean), Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime, Paris, 1982-1984, p. 38