La Londe

La Londe
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of La Londe
La Londe La Londe
Coordinates: 49°18′22″N 0°57′11″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2008 - 2014)	Jean-Pierre Jaouen
Area 1	30.98 km2 (11.96 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	2,362
• Density	76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76391 /76500
Elevation	20–138 m (66–453 ft) (avg. 128 m or 420 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Londe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. It was first mentioned in historical records in 1170

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated some 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D132 and the D38 roads. The commune borders the department of the Eure.

Population

Historical population of La Londe

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1194	1423	1672	1738	1900	2007	2239
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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

«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

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

External links

• Official commune website (in French)