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Berville-en-Caux

commune in Seine-Maritime, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1134795 ↗
Source-derived summary

Berville-en-Caux (French pronunciation: [bɛʁvil ɑ̃ ko], literally Berville in Caux; before 2017: Berville) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D67 and the D27 roads.

Population

Places of interest

The church of Saint-Wandrille, dating from the nineteenth century.

The eighteenth century chapel of Saint-Gilles.

Editorial summary

“Berville-en-Caux” enters the record as commune in Seine-Maritime, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Berville-en-Caux, commune and Seine-Maritime can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Berville-en-Caux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.