- Source: Vatteville-la-Rue
Vatteville-la-Rue (French pronunciation: [vatvil la ʁy]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Geography
A village of forestry and farming situated in a meander of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 22 miles (35 km) west of Rouen on the D65 and D40. The area is popular for the hunting of boar and deer. There is also considerable sand and gravel extraction at the large quarries.
Heraldry
Population
Places of interest
The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
The chapel of St. Maur, also dating from the sixteenth century.
Traces of several Roman villas in the forest of Brotonne.
The ruins of a castle destroyed in 1123.
Vestiges of the chateau of Quesney.
A seventeenth-century windmill, in ruins.
People
Philosopher Alain Etchegoyen (1951–2007) is buried here.
See also
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department