The Austreberthe () is an 18-km
river
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in the
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-InfĂ ...
.
Its source is the village of
Sainte-Austreberthe. It meets the
Seine
The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ...
at
Duclair.
The Austreberthe is crossed by the
Barentin Viaduct, a noteworthy 30 metre high brick railway bridge built in 1846, about 19-km from
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...
.
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Au fil de l'Austreberthe...
Rivers of France
Rivers of Normandy
Rivers of Seine-Maritime
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