Tourville-la-Rivière

Commune in Normandy, France

(2020–2026) Agnès Cercel^[1]Area8 km² (3 sq mi)Population2,568 • Density320/km² (830/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation2–82 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 (French pronunciation: [tuʁvil la ʁivjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy 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

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

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,102	—
1975	1,419	+3.68%
1982	1,828	+3.68%
1990	1,886	+0.39%
1999	2,280	+2.13%
2007	2,287	+0.04%
2012	2,474	+1.58%
2017	2,501	+0.22%
Source: INSEE[3]

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.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

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