La Londe

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Geography

A forestry and farming village situated some Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D132 and the D38 roads. The commune borders the department of the Eure.

Population

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Toponymy

Lunda around 1170. There are more than 100 place-names la Londe in Normandy. It means "the wood, the grove". It derives from Old Norse lundr "grove".

Places of interest

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«Le bûcheron de la forêt de La Londe», sculpted by Paul Richer in 1899
  • A memorial to the Canadian soldiers that liberated the town in August 1944.
  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • A seventeenth-century château.
  • A stone cross from the sixteenth century.
  • Some Roman ruins.

See also

References

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