Saint-Manvieu-Norrey


Saint-Manvieu-Norrey is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

History

The town was liberated on June 26, 1944 as part of Operation Epsom by Scottish troops from the Lowland Infantry Brigade's 44th Infantry from the Scottish 15th Infantry Division after fierce fighting against SS4 troops.
As part of the Raymond Marcellin plan to reduce the number of municipalities, the commune of Norrey-en-Bessin, merged with that of Saint-Manvieu on July 1, 19726. The mayors of the Mrs. Degasteblet for Norrey and Mr. Imhof for Saint-Manvieu.
The commune was formed in 1972, with the merger of the two former communes of Norrey-en-Bessin and Saint-Manvieu.

Name

The name of the locality is attested in the form S. Manveus around 840. Manvieu is a bishop of Bayeux of the 5th century.
Concerning the merged commune, the locality is attested in the form Norreis in 1198 The toponym would come from the Latin nucarium, "walnut".
In 1926, the name of Bessin is deputy in the name of the commune.
The gentile is Manorey.

Landmarks

Population

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the censuses of the population carried out in the commune since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the communes are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual collection of information, successively covering all municipal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey of the entire population is carried out every five years, while the legal populations of the intermediate years are estimated by interpolation or extrapolation. For the municipality, the first comprehensive census within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2006