Cany-Barville

A farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Durdent in the Pays de Caux, some 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D925, D10 and the D268 roads.

Heraldry

	The arms of Cany-Barville are blazoned : Quarterly 1: Argent, 2 garbs of wheat vert and an apple tree vert fructed gules; 2: Azure, a horse and in sinister chief a sheep argent; 3: Azure, a pike contourny and an eel contourny argent; 4: Argent, a hill filling most of the field, rising to sinister, with 5 trees at the top, vert, a fess wavy argent 'river'. [Really, quarter 4 is Vert, a fess wavy argent, and a bit of indescribable sky argent.]

Population

Historical population of Cany-Barville
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1629	1704	2209	3202	3349	3364	3226
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

The church of St. Siméon, at Barville, dating from the sixteenth century.
The church of St. Martin, at Cany, dating from the thirteenth century.
The seventeenth-century chapel of St. Gilles and St. Leu
The seventeenth-century chateau de Cany, built between 1640 and 1656 by François Mansart, with its chapel and a park.
Remnants of a fortified manorhouse dating from the fourteenth century.
A feudal motte at Barville.
The fifteenth century watermill and museum.

Notable people

Louis Bouilhet, French poet, was born here.

References

INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cany-Barville.

Official website of Cany-Barville (French)
The Chateau website (French)
Cany-Barville on the Quid website (French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

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