Tourville-la-Rivière

Tourville-la-Rivière
Tourville-la-Rivière
Commune
	The town hall in Tourville-la-Rivière
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 49°19′44″N 1°06′22″E / 49.329°N 1.106°ECoordinates: 49°19′44″N 1°06′22″E / 49.329°N 1.106°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Noël Levillain
Area 1	8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	2,504
• Density	310/km2 (810/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76705 /76410
Elevation	2–82 m (6.6–269.0 ft) ; (avg. 11 m or 36 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tourville-la-Rivière (French pronunciation: [tuʁvil la ʁivjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography[]

A small farming and light industrial town situated by the banks of the Seine, some 9 miles (14 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D144, D7 and the D13 roads.
Junction 21 of the A13 autoroute is within the commune's borders. SNCF operates a TER rail service to the town. A huge new shopping centre was opened here in 2006.

Heraldry[]

	The arms of the commune of Tourville-la-Rivière are blazoned : Bendy argent and azure, a crowned lion gules between 3 escallops Or.

Population[]

Historical population of Tourville-la-Rivière
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	953	1102	1419	1828	1886	2280	2350
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest[]

The shopping centre.
The church of St. Martin, dating from the sixteenth century.
The seventeenth-century chateau of Tourville at Bédane, with a dovecote built in 1691 and a 15th-century chapel.
A seventeenth-century stone cross.
A Roman necropolis of 150 to 200 tombs with pottery and coins all discovered during the building of the SNCF railway.