Aignerville () is a former commune in the Calvados

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in the Normandy region of northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune

Formigny La Bataille Formigny La Bataille () is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Formigny (the seat), Aignerville, Écrammeville and Louvières. ...

. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Aignervillais'' or ''Aignervillaises''.

Geography

Aignerville is located in the ''Regional Natural Park of Marshes of Cotentin and

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'', two kilometres north-west of Trevieres and 16 km east by north-east of

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in the valley of the

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. The commune is bisected in the northern part from west to east by Route nationale N13 Motorway (E46) which runs between Carentan and Bayeux. Aignerville village is reached by road D198 from Asnieres-en-Bessin in the north which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues south to join the D124 on the southern border. The commune consists almost entirely of farmland with the villages of Carrefour-Berigot, La Grande Route, and Chapelle-Saint-Louis along the north of the motorway and Normanville, Hameau-Lair, La Croix-Toutin, and Aignerville to the south.Google Maps
/ref> The Ruisseau-de-Formigny river flows from south to north through the commune into the Aure Interieur which flows from the east forming the south-eastern border of the commune. In the south of the commune is a network of irrigation canals which is the beginning of a much larger network outside the commune.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aignerville

Population

Sites and monuments

*The Parish Church of Saint Peter dates from the 14th century and contains a Painting: The Judgement of Solomon (16th century) which is registered as an historical object.Ministry of Culture, Palissy

Geography

Administration

Population

Sites and monuments

See also