Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue
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Location within Normandy region
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue
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| Coordinates: 49°35′19″N 1°15′58″W / 49.5886°N 1.2661°WCoordinates: 49°35′19″N 1°15′58″W / 49.5886°N 1.2661°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Manche |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg |
| Canton | Quettehou |
| Intercommunality | Val de Saire |
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| • Mayor (2008–current) | Jean Lepetit |
| Area1 | 6.28 km2 (2.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 2,083 |
| • Density | 330/km2 (860/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 50562 /50550 |
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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.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Saint-Vaast is the Norman name of Saint Vedast and Hougue is a Jèrriais/Norman language word meaning a "mound" or "loaf" and comes from the Old Norse word haugr.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is situated in the Manche département, in the Basse-Normandie région. It is in the Quettehou canton, of the Cherbourg arrondissement. The town had a population of 2,097 in 1999. The island of Tatihou forms part of the Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue commune.
Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is located in Normandy and was a part of the Duchy of Normandy.
In 1001, near Saint-Vaast-la-Hogue, Néel I de Saint-Saveur (related with Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Cotentin Peninsula) (occasionally named Nigel or Niel), a Norman baron of the House of Saint-Sauveur (), repulsed an Anglo-Saxon incursion led by King Æthelred; a pillaging raid in reprisal for the Viking expeditions into the Anglo-Saxon kingdom. The raid failed thanks to the effort of Neel who exterminated the invaders at the Battle of Val-de-Saire.
When Edward III landed 12,000 men in France on 12 July 1346 and proceeded toward what would become the battle of Crecy, it was on the sandy stretch that lies between La Hougue and St Vaast.
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