Bacqueville-en-Caux explained

Bacqueville-en-Caux
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason Bacqueville-en-Caux.svg
Arrondissement:Dieppe
Canton:Luneray
Insee:76051
Postal Code:76730
Mayor:Étienne Delarue[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CC Terroir de Caux
Coordinates:49.7875°N 0.9994°W
Elevation M:92
Elevation Min M:45
Elevation Max M:124
Area Km2:12.19

Bacqueville-en-Caux (in French pronounced as /bakvil ɑ̃ ko/, literally Bacqueville in Caux) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the valley of the river Vienne, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 10miles southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village, called sometimes Baskervilla, Bascervilla in ancient records.[2] (Fictional references include the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in Herefordshire after the Battle of Hastings and he held Eardisley Castle in that county.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. Beaurepaire (Charles de), Laporte (dom Jean), Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime, Paris, 1982-1984, p. 38 http://cths.fr/dico-topo/affiche-vedettes.php?cdep=76&cpage=38