Tourville-la-Rivière

Tourville-la-Rivière is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie 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.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• The shopping centre website (French)
• Official town website (French)
• Tourville-la-Rivière on the Quid website (French)