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Pont-d'Ouilly | |
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 The River Olme in Pont-d'Ouilly | |
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 Location of Pont-d'Ouilly | |
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| Coordinates:48°52′27″N0°24′27″W / 48.8742°N 0.4075°W /48.8742; -0.4075 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Falaise |
| Intercommunality | Pays de Falaise |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Maryvonne Guibout[1] |
Area 1 | 19.50 km2 (7.53 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 1,018 |
| • Density | 52.21/km2 (135.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14764 /14691 |
| Elevation | 42–251 m (138–823 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Pont-d'Ouilly (French pronunciation:[pɔ̃duji]ⓘ) is acommune in theCalvadosdepartment in theNormandyregion in northwesternFrance.
The commune is part of the area known asSuisse Normande.[3]
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets,La Martelée,Le Rocray,Les Hogues,La Potiche,La Guérardière,Le Hameau Hue,Le Haut d'Ouilly,Les Îles d'Ouilly,Le Val Aubert andPont-d'Ouilly.[4] The commune is spread over an area of 19.5 square kilometres (4,800 acres) with a maximum altitude of 251 metres (823 ft 6 in) and minimum of 42 metres (137 ft 10 in)[5]
The Commune with another 20 communes shares part of a 2,115 hectare,Natura 2000 conservation area, called theVallée de l'Orne et ses affluents.[6]
The RiversOrne &Noireau plus six streams, The Orival, The Val Corbel, La Boullonniere, The Val la Here, La Mare des Bois and La Mesliere flow through the commune.[7]
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The 2018CORINE Land Cover assessment shows the vast majority of the land in the commune, 60% (1,177 hectares (2,910 acres)) isMeadows followed by Heterogeneous agricultural land at 15%.[5] The rest of the land is Forest at 13%,Arable land at 10% and the remaining 2% (37 hectares (91 acres)) is urbanised.[5]
The commune has been occupied since at least the Roman times and has evidence that a medieval castle was here.[8] The commune's history centres around the bridge which was an important place to cross theOrne, which until the 19th century, the bridge had eight arches.[9] The bridge was rebuilt with just four arches between 1849 and 1851, however a year later a further arch was added after a rise in water levels destroyed part of the newly built bridge.[9]
The bridge was destroyed again in 1944 fromAllied bombing.[10] On the 16th August 1944 the village was liberated by theXXX Corps of the United Kingdom.[11]
The commune of Pont-d'Ouilly was created on 23 August 1947 from the merger of the two former communes of Saint-Marc-d'Ouilly and Ouilly-le-Basset (old INSEE code 14690), due to the financial and administrative difficulties of rebuilding the area after the war.[12] The bridge, as seen today, was reconstructed in 1947.[10]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1954 | 1,150 | — |
| 1962 | 1,194 | +3.8% |
| 1968 | 1,279 | +7.1% |
| 1975 | 1,230 | −3.8% |
| 1982 | 1,049 | −14.7% |
| 1990 | 1,002 | −4.5% |
| 1999 | 1,050 | +4.8% |
| 2007 | 1,038 | −1.1% |
| 2012 | 1,015 | −2.2% |
| 2017 | 999 | −1.6% |
| 2023 | 1,018 | +1.9% |
| Source: EHESS[13] and INSEE (2006-2023)[14] | ||
Pont-d'Ouilly istwinned with:[20][21]
Chipping Campden, England
Hafenlohr, Germany
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