Ouville-la-Rivière

Ouville-la-Rivière
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Ouville-la-Rivière
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Coordinates: 49°52′25″N 0°57′37″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Dieppe-1
Intercommunality	CC Terroir de Caux
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Loïc Paillard
Area 1	6.34 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	457
• Density	72/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76492 /76860
Elevation	7–74 m (23–243 ft) (avg. 9 m or 30 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ouville-la-Rivière (French pronunciation: [uvil la ʁivjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

The commune is a village of farming and light industry situated by the banks of the river Saâne in the Pays de Caux at the junction of the D 27, D 54 and the D 925 roads, 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Dieppe.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 422 —     1800 469 +1.52% 1806 485 +0.56% 1821 484 −0.01% 1831 603 +2.22% 1836 634 +1.01% 1841 621 −0.41% 1846 637 +0.51% 1851 653 +0.50% 1856 682 +0.87% 1861 693 +0.32% 1866 638 −1.64% 1872 630 −0.21% 1876 666 +1.40% 1881 668 +0.06% 1886 628 −1.23% 1891 607 −0.68% 1896 599 −0.26%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 606 +0.23% 1906 608 +0.07% 1911 603 −0.17% 1921 596 −0.12% 1926 616 +0.66% 1931 649 +1.05% 1936 609 −1.26% 1946 650 +0.65% 1954 691 +0.77% 1962 674 −0.31% 1968 642 −0.81% 1975 645 +0.07% 1982 609 −0.82% 1990 634 +0.50% 1999 602 −0.57% 2007 580 −0.46% 2012 537 −1.53% 2017 495 −1.62%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Places of interest

• A yew tree nearly 1000 years old.
• The eighteenth-century château de Tous les Mesnils, open to visitors on weekend afternoons in the summer.
• The manorhouse du Tessy, now a guesthouse.
• The château d'Ouville, damaged during World War II, and not yet completely rebuilt.
• The church of St. Gilles, dating from the eleventh century.
• A sixteenth-century stone cross.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department