Bacqueville-en-Caux is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

 department in the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region

Régions of France

France is divided into 27 administrative regions , 22 of which are in Metropolitan France, and five of which are overseas. Corsica is a territorial collectivity , but is considered a region in mainstream usage, and is even shown as such on the INSEE website...

 in northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Geography

A farming village in the valley of the Vienne

Vienne (Normandy)

The Vienne is a small river in Normandy, France, in length, flowing through the department of Seine-Maritime- Geography :The Vienne has its source in the Pays de Caux in the territory of the commune of Beauval-en-Caux...

 river, in the Pays de Caux

Pays de Caux

The Pays de Caux is an area in Normandy occupying the greater part of the French département of Seine Maritime in Haute-Normandie. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cliffs on the English Channel coast - its coastline is known as the Côte d'Albâtre...

, situated some 10 miles (16.1 km) southwest of Dieppe

Dieppe, Seine-Maritime

Dieppe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in France. In 1999, the population of the whole Dieppe urban area was 81,419.A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled...

, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

Population

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village. (Fictional references include the Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle is a rugby player. His club is Garryowen. His usual position is inside centre, but he also plays out-half. He has made two appearances for Munster Rugby in the Magners League, but was released by Munster at the end of the 2008/2009 season. While at Munster he was selected for the...

 and William of Baskerville

William of Baskerville

William of Baskerville is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il nome della rosa by Umberto Eco...

 in The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...

.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in the Herefordshire after the battle of Hastings

Battle of Hastings

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II...

 and he held Eardisley Castle

Eardisley Castle

Eardisley Castle was in the village of Eardisley in Herefordshire, England, some 11 km north-east of Hay-on-Wye .This was an 11th century motte and bailey castle with a moat around the bailey filled by a stream...

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Heraldry

Places of interest

• The church of St.Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The twentieth century war memorial.
• The 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
  Presbytery (architecture)
  The presbytery is the name for an area in a church building which is reserved for the clergy.In the oldest church it is separated by short walls, by small columns and pilasters in the Renaissance ones; it can also be raised, being reachable by a few steps, usually with railings....
  
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External links

• Bacqueville-en-Caux on the Quid website