Vatteville-la-Rue

Vatteville-la-Rue
Commune
The church in Vatteville-la-Rue
Coat of arms
Location of Vatteville-la-Rue
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Coordinates: 49°29′21″N 0°41′11″E / 49.4892°N 0.6864°E / 49.4892; 0.6864
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine
Intercommunality	Caux Seine Agglo
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques Charron[1]
Area 1	51.14 km2 (19.75 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,133
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76727 /76940
Elevation	0–125 m (0–410 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vatteville-la-Rue (French pronunciation: [vatvil la ʁy]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A village of

extraction at the large quarries.

Heraldry

The arms of the commune of Vatteville-la-Rue are blazoned : Gules, a 3-masted ship Or, and on a chief argent, a salamandre between an ash leaf and an oak leaf sable.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	694	—
1975	636	−1.24%
1982	746	+2.31%
1990	897	+2.33%
1999	890	−0.09%
2007	1,034	+1.89%
2012	1,107	+1.37%
2017	1,140	+0.59%
Source: INSEE[3]

Places of interest

• The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The chapel of St. Maur, also dating from the sixteenth century.
• Traces of several Roman villas in the forest of Brotonne.
• The ruins of a castle destroyed in 1123.
• Vestiges of the chateau of Quesney.
• A seventeenth-century windmill, in ruins.

People

• Philosopher Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007) is buried here.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

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