# Auderville

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{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Auderville
|image                  = Port de Goury.jpg
|caption                = The port
|arrondissement         = Cherbourg
|canton                 = La Hague
|commune                = La Hague
|INSEE                  = 50020
|postal code            = 50440
|coordinates            = {{coord|49.7128|-1.93|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 60
|elevation min m        = 0
|elevation max m        = 133
|area km2               = 4.33
|population             = 235
|population date        = 2022
|population footnotes   = <ref name=pop2022>{{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=[INSEE](/source/Institut_national_de_la_statistique_et_des_%C3%A9tudes_%C3%A9conomiques)|date=December 2024}}</ref>
}}

'''Auderville''' ({{IPA|fr|odɛʁvil}}) is a former [commune](/source/Commune_of_France) on the north coast of the [Manche](/source/Manche_(d%C3%A9partement)) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in the [Normandy](/source/Normandy_(administrative_region)) [region](/source/Regions_of_France) in northwestern [France](/source/France). On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune [La Hague](/source/La_Hague).<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/9/27/INTB1629328A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 27 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==History==
thumb|left|Freya radar spotted on 22 February 1941
On 22 February 1941, an RAF reconnaissance [Spitfire](/source/Supermarine_Spitfire) aircraft from [RAF Benson](/source/RAF_Benson) in south [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire) with Flying Officer William Kenneth Manifould (28 June 1918 - 10 April 1941) of [No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF](/source/No._1_Photographic_Reconnaissance_Unit_RAF) spotted the [Freya radar](/source/Freya_radar) nearby.<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Auderville-Freya-discovery_fig1_308731394 Freya radar in 1941]</ref>

==Geography==
The commune contains four villages, Goury, Laye, La Valette and La Roche, as well as a lighthouse. It is separated from Alderney by the Raz Blanchard, and has a small and not easily accessible port at Goury.

[Cadomian](/source/Cadomian_orogeny) granit crop out in Auderville.<ref>[http://www.etab.ac-caen.fr/discip/geologie/precamb/goury/goury.htm Cadomian granit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706034553/http://www.etab.ac-caen.fr/discip/geologie/precamb/goury/goury.htm |date=2014-07-06 }} Website ''Lithothèque de Normandie''.</ref>

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|align=none
|cols=2
| 1793|404 
| 1800|388 
| 1806|384 
| 1821|496 
| 1831|531 
| 1836|572 
| 1841|544 
| 1846|500 
| 1851|499 
| 1856|479 
| 1861|440 
| 1866|480 
| 1872|489 
| 1876|475 
| 1881|448 
| 1886|463 
| 1891|455 
| 1896|413 
| 1901|412 
| 1906|423 
| 1911|408 
| 1921|365 
| 1926|354 
| 1931|296 
| 1936|293 
| 1946|229 
| 1954|262 
| 1962|232 
| 1968|233 
| 1975|204 
| 1982|218 
| 1990|283 
| 1999|283 
| 2006|287
| 2009|276
| 2014|249
| 2019|215
}}

==Heraldry==
{{Blazon-arms
| img1=Blason ville fr Auderville (Manche).svg
| legend1=Arms of Auderville
| text=The arms of Auderville are [blazon](/source/blazon)ed :<br />''Argent, on a fess gules in pale 2 leopards between 2 buckles Or, in chief a fleur de lys between 2 mullets, and in base a lighthouse between 2 ermine spots sable, the lighthouse pierced of the field and lit Or.'' 
}}

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==See also==
*[Communes of the Manche department](/source/Communes_of_the_Manche_department)

==References==
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{{Commons category|Auderville}}

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Category:Former communes of Manche
Category:History of telecommunications in France
Category:History of telecommunications in Germany
Category:Populated coastal places in France
Category:Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast
Category:Telecommunications in World War II

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