Ravenoville | |
Arrondissement: | Cherbourg |
Canton: | Carentan |
Insee: | 50427 |
Postal Code: | 50480 |
Commune: | Sainte-Mère-Église |
Coordinates: | 49.4575°N -1.2694°W |
Elevation M: | 10 |
Elevation Min M: | 0 |
Elevation Max M: | 12 |
Area Km2: | 11.65 |
Population: | 254 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Ravenoville (in French pronounced as /ʁavnovil/) is a former commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Sainte-Mère-Église.[2]
Ravenoville is divided into 2 towns: Ravenoville-Bourg and Ravenoville-Plage. A sinuous route of about 1.25 miles through the pastureland of Normandy links them.
Ravenoville, close to Utah Beach, on the evening of June 5, 1944 and throughout the day of June 6, 1944, lived through the Allied D-Day landing.