Banneville-la-Campagne

Banneville-la-Campagne (Template:IPA) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.<ref>Commune de Banneville-la-Campagne (14036), INSEE Template:In lang</ref>

Geography

Banneville-la Campagne is located some 8 km east of the centre of Caen just south of Sannerville. Access to the commune is by the D675 from Caen which forms the northern border of the commune as it goes east to Troarn. The D227 comes from Sannerville in the north and goes south through the village then continues to join the D225 south of the commune. The D225 comes from Troarn in the east and passes south-west through the eastern part of the commune and continues south to Émiéville. The A13 autoroute (Autoroute de Normandie: Caen to Paris) passes through the heart of the commune and the village from west to east with the intersection with the A813 autoroute (Banneville-la-Campagne to Frénouville) on the south-western border of the commune. The nearest exit is Exit Template:Motorway exit to the D675 just east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Manneville in the south-west and Le Havre in the south-east. The commune is almost entirely farmland.<ref name=Google>Google Maps</ref>

The Ruisseau du Pont Bâle forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Fosse du Val on the northern border of the commune. The Ruisseau de Banneville rises in the commune and flows east to join the Ruisseau du Pont Bâle as does the Cours de Guillerville in the south-east where it forms part of the southern border of the commune.<ref name=Google/>

Toponymy

The name Banneville was attested as Magnevilla in 1198.<ref>Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, 708 pages, p. 374, Template:ISBN Template:In lang.</ref>

The suffix -ville means in the old sense "rural domain" (cf. vilain), preceded by the Old Norse personal surname Norse Barn meaning "child".<ref>Origin and Etymology of the anthroponym Barni</ref>

The name is a homonym with all the Barnevilles in Normandy.

The complementary determinant -la-Campagne was attested from 1371<ref name=Dauzat>Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 Template:In lang</ref> and refers to the campagne de Caen (the Caen Plain). This term belongs to the Northern Norman dialect and equivalent to the central French champagne. The Norman-Picard word campagne (Rural area) has been incorporated in standard French.

The name allows it to be distinguished from Banneville-sur-Ajon, another town in Calvados. It is uncertain that it shares the same etymology. The form Barneville sur Ajon was already mentioned in 1371.<ref name=Dauzat/>

History

In 1828 Banneville-la-Campagne (30 inhabitants in 1821) absorbed Guillerville (100 inhabitants in the southeast of the territory) and Manneville (47 inhabitants in the south-west).<ref name="ehess"/>

During the Invasion of Normandy Guillerville was attacked on 19 July 1944 by the British 3rd Infantry Division as part of Operation Goodwood as part of the taking of the town of Troarn to the east. British tanks of the 27th Armoured Brigade faced the tanks of the Wehrmacht 21st Panzer Division and Tiger I tanks of the 503rd battalion of heavy tanks. Guillerville was finally liberated in the operation but not Troarn.

Administration

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From	To	Name
2001	2008	Robert Barron
2008	2014	Ann Drevon
2014	2026	Anne Baugas

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bannevillais or Bannevillaises in French.<ref>Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr</ref>

Sites and monuments

• A Chateau Gateway (14th century)Template:Mérimée Icon is registered as an historical monument.<ref>Ministry of Culture, Mérimée Template:Mérimée Template:In lang</ref> It is the old gateway of the Abbey of Saint-Martin of Troarn which was removed in 1843 for the construction of the road from Troarn to Saint-Samson. It was re-erected, at the request of Gaston-Robert, Marquis de Banneville, in the commune of Banneville where it now serves as the entrance to the chateau.<ref>The Heritage of the Communes of Calvados, Vol. 2, Flohic Éditions, 2001, Paris, Template:ISBN, p. 1563 Template:In lang</ref>

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• Banneville-la-Campagne on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Template:In lang
• Banneville-la-Campagne on the 1750 Cassini Map