Bacqueville-en-Caux (, literally ''Bacqueville in Caux'') is a commune 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-Inf� ...

department in the

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in northern

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Geography

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village in the valley of the river Vienne, in the

Pays de Caux The Pays de Caux (, , literally ''Land of Caux'') is an area in Normandy occupying the greater part of the French '' département'' of Seine Maritime in Normandy. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cl ...

, situated some southwest of

Dieppe Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...

, at the junction of the D149 and D23 roads.

Population

History

The Baskervilles in England come from this village, called sometimes ''Baskervilla'', ''Bascervilla'' in ancient records.Beaurepaire (Charles de), Laporte (dom Jean), ''Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime'', Paris, 1982-1984, p. 3

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'' by

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and

William of Baskerville William of Baskerville (, ) is a fictional Franciscan friar from the 1980 historical mystery novel ''The Name of the Rose'' (''Il nome della rosa'') by Umberto Eco. Life and death ''The Name of the Rose'' is itself a recounting of events as ...

in ''

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'' by

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.) Robert de Bascheville or de Baskeville received lands in Herefordshire after the

Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. It took place appr ...

and he held

Eardisley Castle Eardisley Castle was in the village of Eardisley in Herefordshire, England, 11 km north-east of Hay-on-Wye (). The site of the castle is a scheduled monument. This was an 11th-century motte and bailey castle with a moat around the bailey fil ...

in that county.

Heraldry

Places of interest

* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century * The twentieth century war memorial * Two 13th-century stone crosses * The church of St. Eutrope, dating from the nineteenth century * The park and château of Bacqueville dating from the eighteenth century * Two 16th century

manorhouse A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...

s * A seventeenth century presbytery

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