Tourville-la-Rivière

Tourville-la-Rivière is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Tourville-la-Rivière
The town hall in Tourville-la-Rivière
Coat of arms
Location of Tourville-la-Rivière
Tourville-la-Rivière
Tourville-la-Rivière
Coordinates: 49°19′44″N 1°06′22″E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementRouen
CantonCaudebec-lès-Elbeuf
IntercommunalityMétropole Rouen Normandie
Government
  Mayor (2008 - 2014) Noël Levillain
Area
1
8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
2,501
  Density310/km2 (810/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
76705 /76410
Elevation2–82 m (6.6–269.0 ft)
(avg. 11 m or 36 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A small farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the Seine, some 9 miles (14 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D144, D7 and the D13 roads.
Junction 21 of the A13 autoroute is within the commune's borders. SNCF operates a TER rail service to the town. A huge new shopping centre was opened here in 2006.

Heraldry

Arms of Tourville-la-Rivière
The arms of the commune of Tourville-la-Rivière are blazoned :
Bendy argent and azure, a crowned lion gules between 3 escallops Or.

Population

Historical population of Tourville-la-Rivière
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population953110214191828188622802350
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

  • The shopping centre.
  • The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The seventeenth-century chateau of Tourville at Bédane, with a dovecote built in 1691 and a 15th-century chapel.
  • A seventeenth-century stone cross.
  • A Roman necropolis of 150 to 200 tombs with pottery and coins all discovered during the building of the SNCF railway.

See also

References

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


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