Criquetot-sur-Ouville is a
commune in the
Seine-Maritime department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the
Normandy region in northern
France.
Geography
A
farming village situated in the
Pays de Caux, some northwest of
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
, at the junction of the D55, D88 and the D253 roads.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Martin, dating from the eighteenth century.
* Ruins of a
feudal
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castle
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.
* An eighteenth-century
chateau.
Notable people
* The painter
Charles Angrand was born here in 1854.
See also
*
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
References
Communes of Seine-Maritime
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