{{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|date=December 2024}}</ref> }}
'''Auderville''' ({{IPA|fr|odɛʁvil}}) is a former commune on the north coast of the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune 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 aircraft from RAF Benson in south Oxfordshire with Flying Officer William Kenneth Manifould (28 June 1918 - 10 April 1941) of No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF spotted the 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 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 blazoned :<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
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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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