Vatteville-la-Rue
Commune in Normandy, France
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Vatteville-la-Rue (French pronunciation: [vatvil la ʁy]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
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The church in Vatteville-la-Rue | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Vatteville-la-Rue | |
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| Coordinates: 49°29′21″N 0°41′11″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Rouen |
| Canton | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine |
| Intercommunality | Caux Seine Agglo |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jacques Charron[1] |
Area 1 | 51.14 km2 (19.75 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 1,103 |
| • Density | 21.57/km2 (55.86/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76727 /76940 |
| Elevation | 0–125 m (0–410 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Geography
Heraldry
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The arms of the commune of Vatteville-la-Rue are blazoned : Gules, a 3-masted ship Or, and on a chief argent, a salamandre between an ash leaf and an oak leaf sable.
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Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 694 | — |
| 1975 | 636 | −1.24% |
| 1982 | 746 | +2.31% |
| 1990 | 897 | +2.33% |
| 1999 | 890 | −0.09% |
| 2007 | 1,034 | +1.89% |
| 2012 | 1,107 | +1.37% |
| 2017 | 1,140 | +0.59% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Places of interest
- The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
- The chapel of St. Maur, also dating from the sixteenth century.
- Traces of several Roman villas in the forest of Brotonne.
- The ruins of a castle destroyed in 1123.
- Vestiges of the chateau of Quesney.
- A seventeenth-century windmill, in ruins.
People
- Philosopher Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007) is buried here.
