Veauville-lès-Baons explained

Veauville-lès-Baons
Arrondissement:	Rouen
Canton:	Yvetot
Insee:	76729
Postal Code:	76190
Commune:	Les Hauts-de-Caux
Coordinates:	49.6539°N 0.7675°W
Elevation M:	145
Elevation Min M:	118
Elevation Max M:	152
Area Km2:	7.96
Population:	711
Population Date:	2019
Population Footnotes:	^[1]

Veauville-lès-Baons is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts-de-Caux.^[2]

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 24miles northwest of Rouen at the junction of the C5 with the D37 road. The A29 autoroute passes through the commune's borders.

Places of interest

• The church of St. Austreberthe, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the fifteenth century.
• A sixteenth-century stone cross at the crossroads.
• A 30-foot high granite cross, erected in 1874.

Notable people

Claudine Loquen(1965-), painter and sculptor has lived in Veauville-lès-Baons (from 1976 to 2007)

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

Notes and References

1. https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019
2. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2018/12/19/TERB1905238A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral