Lestrade-et-Thouels

Lestrade-et-Thouels
Commune
Lestrade-et-Thouels
Location within Occitanie region
Lestrade-et-Thouels
Coordinates: 44°03′37″N 2°39′37″E / 44.0603°N 2.6603°E / 44.0603; 2.6603Coordinates: 44°03′37″N 2°39′37″E / 44.0603°N 2.6603°E / 44.0603; 2.6603
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Aveyron
Arrondissement Millau
Canton Raspes et Lévezou
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Bernard Castagnier (PR)
Area1 42.27 km2 (16.32 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 462
 • Density 11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 12129 /12430
Elevation 315–803 m (1,033–2,635 ft)
(avg. 720 m or 2,360 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Lestrade-et-Thouels is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962608—    
1968672+10.5%
1975612−8.9%
1982624+2.0%
1990534−14.4%
1999454−15.0%
2008438−3.5%

Relation to Inspector Lestrade

The village of Lestrade-et-Thouels is considered as a possible origin of the family name "Lestrade", made famous through the character Inspector Lestrade who appears in numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle is known to have given the fictional inspector the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. The ancestry of Joseph Lestrade is not sufficiently known to establish a certain link between him and the French village.

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