Tourville-la-Rivière

Tourville-la-Rivière
Tourville-la-Rivière
	Coat of arms
	Location of Tourville-la-Rivière
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Intercommunality	CREA
Government
• Mayor (2008 - 2014)	Noël Levillain
Area 1	8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population (2006)	2,350
• Density	290/km2 (760/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76705 /76410
Elevation	2–82 m (6.6–269.0 ft) ; (avg. 11 m or 36 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tourville-la-Rivière is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A small farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the Seine, some 9 miles (14 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D144, D7 and the D13 roads.
Junction 21 of the A13 autoroute is within the commune’s borders. SNCF operates a TER rail service to the town. A huge new shopping centre was opened here in 2006.

Heraldry

Arms of Tourville-la-Rivière	The arms of the commune of Tourville-la-Rivière are blazoned : Bendy argent and azure, a crowned lion gules between 3 escallops Or.

Population

Historical population of Tourville-la-Rivière
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	953	1102	1419	1828	1886	2280	2350
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 shopping centre.
The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
The seventeenth-century chateau of Tourville at Bédane, with a dovecote built in 1691 and a 15th-century chapel.
A seventeenth-century stone cross.
A Roman necropolis of 150 to 200 tombs with pottery and coins all discovered during the building of the SNCF railway.

References

INSEE

External links

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