Montérolier () is a
commune in the
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Infà ...
department in the
Normandy
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Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
region in northern
France
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.
Geography
A
farming
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village situated in the
Pays de Bray
The Pays de Bray (, literally ''Land of Bray'') is a small (about 750 km2) natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French departments of the Seine-Maritime and the Oise (historically divided among the Pr ...
, some southeast of
Dieppe
Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.
Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...
at the junction of the D24 and the D38 roads. The river
Varenne
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Varenne is considered to be the best trotter of all time. No other trotter has won so many of the most important races in th ...
has its source here.
Montérolier-Buchy station has rail connections to Rouen, Lille and Amiens.
Surrounded by the communes
Neufbosc,
Mathonville and
Saint-Martin-Osmonville, Montérolier is located 26 km northeast of
Mont-Saint-Aignan
Mont-Saint-Aignan () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France.
The inhabitants of the town of Mont-Saint-Aignan are called ''Mont-Saint-Aignanais'' in French.
Due to the presence of higher edu ...
, the largest city nearby.
History
During 1943, in the Clairefeuille woods at Montérolier, the Germans built underground galleries in which to store
V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb ( "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry () name was Fieseler Fi 103 and its suggestive name was (hellhound). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug a ...
s. After the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, the galleries were opened to the public. On the 21 and 22 June 1995, 13 people died accidentally in the tunnels.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eighteenth century.
* Traces of an 11th-century
castle
A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...
.
* A nineteenth-century château.
* A
sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
cross, from the sixteenth century.
* The tunnels of Montérolier. (Closed since the accident in 1995).
People
*
Jean de Grouchy,
sieur
Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a historical rural estate. The titles date to the English feudal (specifically baronial) system. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the ...
of Montérolier (1354–1435).
See also
*
References
External links
Montérolier - The tunnels of Clairefeuille
Communes of Seine-Maritime
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