Auderville

Auderville
Part of La Hague
The port
Location of Auderville
Auderville Show map of France Auderville Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°42′46″N 1°55′48″W / 49.7128°N 1.93°W / 49.7128; -1.93
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Cherbourg
Canton	La Hague
Commune	La Hague
Area ^1	4.33 km^2 (1.67 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]	235
• Density	54.3/km^2 (141/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	50440
Elevation	0–133 m (0–436 ft) (avg. 60 m or 200 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Auderville (French pronunciation: [odɛʁvil]) is a former commune on the north coast of the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Hague.^[2]

History

Freya radar spotted on 22 February 1941

On 22 February 1941, an RAF reconnaissance Spitfire aircraft from RAF Benson in south Oxfordshire with Flying Officer William Kenneth Manifould (28 June 1918 - 10 April 1941) of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF spotted the Freya radar nearby.^[3]

Geography

The commune contains four villages, Goury, Laye, La Valette and La Roche, as well as a lighthouse. It is separated from Alderney by the Raz Blanchard, and has a small and not easily accessible port at Goury.

Cadomian granit crop out in Auderville.^[4]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 404 —     1800 388 −4.0% 1806 384 −1.0% 1821 496 +29.2% 1831 531 +7.1% 1836 572 +7.7% 1841 544 −4.9% 1846 500 −8.1% 1851 499 −0.2% 1856 479 −4.0% 1861 440 −8.1% 1866 480 +9.1% 1872 489 +1.9% 1876 475 −2.9% 1881 448 −5.7% 1886 463 +3.3% 1891 455 −1.7% 1896 413 −9.2% 1901 412 −0.2%

Year Pop. ±% 1906 423 +2.7% 1911 408 −3.5% 1921 365 −10.5% 1926 354 −3.0% 1931 296 −16.4% 1936 293 −1.0% 1946 229 −21.8% 1954 262 +14.4% 1962 232 −11.5% 1968 233 +0.4% 1975 204 −12.4% 1982 218 +6.9% 1990 283 +29.8% 1999 283 +0.0% 2006 287 +1.4% 2009 276 −3.8% 2014 249 −9.8% 2019 215 −13.7%

Heraldry

Arms of Auderville

The arms of Auderville are blazoned : Argent, on a fess gules in pale 2 leopards between 2 buckles Or, in chief a fleur de lys between 2 mullets, and in base a lighthouse between 2 ermine spots sable, the lighthouse pierced of the field and lit Or.

See also

• Communes of the Manche department

References

1. "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
2. Arrêté préfectoral 27 September 2016 (in French)
3. Freya radar in 1941
4. Cadomian granit Archived 2014-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Website Lithothèque de Normandie.