Notre-Dame-de-Courson

Notre-Dame-de-Courson
Notre-Dame-de-Courson
Location within Normandy region
Notre-Dame-de-Courson
Coordinates: 48°59′30″N 0°15′47″E / 48.9917°N 0.2631°E / 48.9917; 0.2631Coordinates: 48°59′30″N 0°15′47″E / 48.9917°N 0.2631°E / 48.9917; 0.2631
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Lisieux
Canton Livarot
Intercommunality Pays de Livarot
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2021) Roland Bauchet
Area1 19.40 km2 (7.49 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 403
 • Density 21/km2 (54/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 14471 /14140
Elevation 87–214 m (285–702 ft)
(avg. 113 m or 371 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.

Notre-Dame-de-Courson is a former commune in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.[1]

History

Notre-Dame-de-Courson fell in medieval times within the barony of the Ferrers family at nearby Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, who took part of the Norman Conquest of England. One branch of the Curzons from Notre-Dame-de-Courson accompanied their Ferrers overlord to England.[2]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962529—    
1968506−4.3%
1975441−12.8%
1982386−12.5%
1990416+7.8%
1999357−14.2%
2008403+12.9%

International relations

Notre-Dame-de-Courson is twinned with the village of Sampford Peverell in Devon, England.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 24 December 2015 (in French)
  2. ↑ The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, David C. Douglas, Lewis C. Loyd, 1951


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