Auderville

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".

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

File:Auderville Freyas.jpg
Freya radar spotted on 22 February 1941

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

<templatestyles src="Module:Historical populations/styles.css"/>Script error: No such module "Historical populations".

Heraldry

Template:Blazon-arms

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Template:Sister project

Template:Authority control


Template:Cherbourg-geo-stub