Harcanville

Harcanville
Harcanville
Location within Normandy region Harcanville
Coordinates: 49°42′54″N 0°45′21″E / 49.715°N 0.7558°E / 49.715; 0.7558Coordinates: 49°42′54″N 0°45′21″E / 49.715°N 0.7558°E / 49.715; 0.7558
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Doudeville
Government
• Mayor	Philippe Langnel
Area¹	7.48 km² (2.89 sq mi)
Population (2006)²	451
• Density	60/km² (160/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	76340 / 76560
Elevation	108–156 m (354–512 ft) (avg. 130 m or 430 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ² Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Harcanville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux some 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D149 and the D110 roads. It is very close to the section of Secantan.

Population

Historical population of Harcanville
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	404	411	419	440	384	403	451
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.Jean & St.Clair, dating from the eleventh century.
A feudal motte.
A sixteenth-century fortified manor house, now part of a farm.
The eighteenth-century Manoir de Pichemont.

References

INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harcanville.

Harcanville on the Quid website (French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

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