Auderville
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Auderville (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a former commune on the north coast of the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.[1]
History
On 22 February 1941, an RAF reconnaissance Spitfire aircraft from RAF Benson in south Oxfordshire with Flying Officer William Kenneth Manifould (28 June 1918 - 10 April 1941) of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF spotted the Freya radar nearby.[2]
Geography
The commune contains four villages, Goury, Laye, La Valette and La Roche, as well as a lighthouse. It is separated from Alderney by the Raz Blanchard, and has a small and not easily accessible port at Goury.
Cadomian granit crop out in Auderville.[3]
Population
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Heraldry
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See also
References
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- ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 27 September 2016 Template:In lang
- ↑ Freya radar in 1941
- ↑ Cadomian granit Script error: No such module "webarchive". Website Lithothèque de Normandie.
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- Former communes of Manche
- History of telecommunications in France
- History of telecommunications in Germany
- Populated coastal places in France
- Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast
- Telecommunications in World War II