Grainville-la-Teinturière

Grainville-la-Teinturière
Commune
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Coat of arms
Location of Grainville-la-Teinturière
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Coordinates: 49°44′55″N 0°38′30″E / 49.7486°N 0.6417°E / 49.7486; 0.6417
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	CC Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	René Vimont[1]
Area 1	18.41 km2 (7.11 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,072
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76315 /76450
Elevation	25–142 m (82–466 ft) (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Grainville-la-Teinturière (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɛ̃vil la tɛ̃tyʁjɛːʁ]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming and forestry village situated by the banks of the river Durdent in the Pays de Caux, some 28 miles (45 km) southwest of Dieppe, at the junction of the D71, the D75 and the D131 roads.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.
• Vestiges of an 11th-century castle: motte; donjon; moat
• A museum dedicated to Jean de Béthencourt, explorer, who died at the castle.

Twin towns

• Teguise, Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands.
• Betancuria, Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

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