Avenay
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Tombstone in the old Fierville Church at Avenay
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Location within Normandy region
Avenay
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| Coordinates: 49°06′07″N 0°27′32″W / 49.1019°N 0.4589°WCoordinates: 49°06′07″N 0°27′32″W / 49.1019°N 0.4589°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Évrecy |
| Intercommunality | Évrecy-Orne-Odon |
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| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Jean-Louis Lechevalier |
| Area1 | 5.62 km2 (2.17 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)2 | 519 |
| • Density | 92/km2 (240/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14034 /14210 |
| Elevation | 35–120 m (115–394 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Avenay is a French commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Avenay is located some 12 km south-west of Caen just east of Évrecy. Access to the commune is by the D36 road from Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay in the south-west which passes through the heart of the commune and the village and continues north to join the D8. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of La Coquerie on the eastern border. The commune consists entirely of farmland.
The Guigne river flows along the northern border of the commune towards the east where it joins the Orne south of Bully.
The oldest traces of Avenay village date from Gallo-Roman times. In 1820-1821 some remains of Gallo-Roman houses were found. In the Middle Ages, the village depended on the Bishop of Bayeux.
In 1827 Avenay (336 inhabitants in 1821) absorbed Fierville-en-Bessin (68 people) in the east of its territory.
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
In 2010 the commune had 519 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.
This table includes the population of Fierville-en-Bassin prior to 1827.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
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