Cany-Barville

Cany-Barville
Commune
The church in Cany-Barville
Coat of arms
Location of Cany-Barville
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Coordinates: 49°47′19″N 0°38′22″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	CC Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Pierre Thévenot
Area 1	13.57 km2 (5.24 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	2,947
• Density	220/km2 (560/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76159 /76450
Elevation	10–126 m (33–413 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cany-Barville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Durdent in the Pays de Caux, some 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D925, D10 and the D268 roads.

Heraldry

Arms of Cany-Barville

The arms of Cany-Barville are blazoned : Quarterly 1: Argent, 2 garbs of wheat vert and an apple tree vert fructed gules; 2: Azure, a horse and in sinister chief a sheep argent; 3: Azure, a pike contourny and an eel contourny argent; 4: Argent, a hill filling most of the field, rising to sinister, with 5 trees at the top, vert, a fess wavy argent 'river'. [Really, quarter 4 is Vert, a fess wavy argent, and a bit of indescribable sky argent.]

Population

Historical population of Cany-Barville

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1629	1704	2209	3202	3349	3364	3226
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St. Siméon, at Barville, dating from the 16th century
• The church of St. Martin, at Cany, dating from the 13th century
• The 17th-century chapel of St. Gilles and St. Leu
• The 17th-century château de Cany, built between 1640 and 1656 by François Mansart, with its chapel and a park
• Remains of a fortified manor house dating from the 14th century
• A feudal motte at Barville
• The 15th-century watermill and museum.

Notable people

• Louis Bouilhet, French poet, was born here.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

External links

• Official website of Cany-Barville (in French)
• The Chateau website (in French)