Grainville-la-Teinturière

Grainville-la-Teinturière
Grainville-la-Teinturière
Location within Upper Normandy region Grainville-la-Teinturière
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Cany-Barville
Intercommunality	Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor	René Vimont
Area1	18.41 km2 (7.11 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,111
• Density	60/km2 (160/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76315 / 76450
Elevation	25–142 m (82–466 ft) (avg. 8 m or 26 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.

Grainville-la-Teinturière (French pronunciation: ​[ɡʁɛ̃vil la tɛ̃tyʁjɛːʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming and forestry village situated by the banks of the Durdent river in the Pays de Caux, some 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D71, the D75 and the D131 roads.

Population

Historical population of Grainville-la-Teinturière

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	794	801	860	882	964	990	1111
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 church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.
• Vestiges of an 11th-century castle: motte; donjon; moat
• A museum dedicated to Jean de Béthencourt, explorer, who died at the castle.

Twin towns

• Teguise, Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands.
• Betancuria, Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands.

See also

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Grainville-la-Teinturière on the Quid website (French)