Tancarville

Tancarville
Tancarville Bridge
Tancarville
Location within Upper Normandy region Tancarville
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc
Intercommunality	Caux-Vallée de Seine
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Céline Turquetille
Area1	7.42 km2 (2.86 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,246
• Density	170/km2 (430/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76684 / 76430
Elevation	0–117 m (0–384 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Tancarville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Upper Normandy region of northern France.

Geography

Tancarville is a farming village surrounded by woodland, by the banks of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 14 miles (23 km) east of Le Havre and near the junction of the D39, D982 and D910 roads at the eastern end of the A131 autoroute. The canal de Tancarville to le Havre starts here and it is also the site of the 125 m high Tancarville Bridge.

History

Tancarvilla 1103; Tancardi villae 1114; Tankrad's farm. Germanic male given name Tankrad > Tancred, common in the duchy of Normandy. The first lords of Tancarville were the chamberlains of the Norman dukes, and then of the King of England too. William de Tancarville, a grandson of Stephen, Count of Tréguier, trained William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke whom he knighted in 1166. The title Earl of Tankerville was created in the Peerage of England for John Grey by King Henry V, during the Hundred Years' War and still exists, albeit in a later creation.

Heraldry

The arms of Tancarville are blazoned : Gules, an escutcheon argent between 8 angennes (roses) in orle. (Note: this angenne is very rose-like, not the highly stylized cinqfoil.)

Population

Historical population of Tancarville

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	938	921	1026	1139	1326	1236	1246
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 12th-century Château de Tancarville

The vivier (park) of Tancarville

• The 19th-century church of St. Michel
• The 12th-century Château de Tancarville and chapel
• An 18th-century château
• The château of Drumare.
• The Tancarville Bridge.
• Vivier de Tancarville, a large natural reserve.

See also

• Tancarville Bridge
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Tancarville on the Quid website (French)