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Blosseville

commune in Seine-Maritime, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1112821 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blosseville (French pronunciation: [blɔsvil]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A small farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 15 miles (24 km) west of Dieppe, at the junction of the D69 and the D57 roads.

Population

Places of interest

The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.

The thirteenth century chapel du Val.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Blosseville” is commune in Seine-Maritime, France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Blosseville, commune and Seine-Maritime, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Blosseville, commune and Seine-Maritime is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “commune in Seine-Maritime, France” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1112821. Authority coordinates are 49.854, 0.796. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Blosseville” 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.