Aumale

Aumale
Aumale
Location within Upper Normandy region  Aumale
Coordinates: 49°46′17″N 1°45′11″E / 49.7714°N 1.7531°ECoordinates: 49°46′17″N 1°45′11″E / 49.7714°N 1.7531°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Aumale
Intercommunality	Canton d'Aumale
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Virginie Lucot-Avril
Area^1	9.06 km^2 (3.50 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	2,544
• Density	280/km^2 (730/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76035 / 76390
Elevation	106–212 m (348–696 ft) (avg. 130 m or 430 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aumale, formerly known as Albemarle,^[1] is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France. It lies on the Bresle.

History

The town's Latin name was Alba Maria. It was raised by William the Bastard into a county, which was held by the houses of Castile, Dammartin, Harcourt, and Lorraine. In 1547, it was raised to the status of a duchy for Francis of Lorraine. It passed to the house of Savoy, from whom Louis XIV purchased the title in 1675 in order to bestow it upon one of his bastards as an apanage. In 1769, it passed to the house of Orleans.^[1] The British earls of Albemarle, meanwhile, also derive their name from the area.^[1]

Geography

A village of farming and associated light industry, situated in the valley of the Bresle River of the Norman Pays de Bray in Normandy on the border with Picardie. It is around 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D 916, D 920, D 929 and D 49 roads. The A29 autoroute (Saint-Quentin-Beuzeville) passes through the commune’s northern sector. SNCF, the French railway has a TER station here, on the Beauvais – Le Tréport-Mers line.

Heraldry

The arms of Aumale are blazoned : Argent, on a fess azure, 3 fleurs de lys Or.

Population

Historical population of Aumale

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	2716	2833	2825	2876	2690	2577	2544
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 church of St.Pierre & St.Paul, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The sixteenth-century Hôtel de ville (town hall).
• A seventeenth-century Hospital.
• The chapel of Notre-Dame du Cardonnoy, from the thirteenth century.
• The seventeenth-century château du Bois Robin
• The tower and buildings of the 16th-century abbey.

Twin towns

• Csurgó, Hungary since 1991
• Cuckfield, England since 1991

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Counts and Dukes of Aumale
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

Notes

1. " Baynes, T.S., ed. (1878). "Aumale". Encyclopædia Britannica 3 (9th ed.). p. 85.

References

• INSEE

External links

• Aumale official website (French)
• Aumale on the Quid website (French)
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aumale". Encyclopædia Britannica 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 921.

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  Aumale church

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  North side of the church

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  Sculpted wood panels on the pulpit

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  The Bresle river by the Moulin du Roy

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  The Bresle Viaduct, 755m long, constructed during 2002-2004 to carry the A29 motorway