Creully

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Creully
Part of Creully sur Seulles
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Coordinates: 49°17′04″N 0°32′22″W / 49.2844°N 0.5394°W / 49.2844; -0.5394Coordinates: 49°17′04″N 0°32′22″W / 49.2844°N 0.5394°W / 49.2844; -0.5394
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse
Commune	Creully sur Seulles
Area 1	8.56 km2 (3.31 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	1,597
• Density	190/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	14480
Elevation	7–61 m (23–200 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Creully (French pronunciation: [kʁøli] (listen)) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Creully sur Seulles.^[2]

The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).^[3] Lt. McCormick was the only Allied soldier to reach his D-Day objective when on 6 June 1944, after the tank he commanded passed through Creully, it reached the Caen-Bayeux road.^[4]

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See also[]

• Communes of the Calvados department
• Château de Creully

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