Croisilles, Calvados

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Croisilles (Calvados)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Croisilles (Calvados)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Normandy, France

Croisilles
Commune
Town hall Town hall
Location of Croisilles Map
Croisilles is located in France Croisilles Croisilles Show map of France Croisilles is located in Normandy Croisilles Croisilles Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 48°59′54′′N 0°26′35′′W / 48.9983°N 0.4431°W / 48.9983; -0.4431
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Le Hom
Intercommunality	Cingal-Suisse Normande
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Élisabeth Mailloux^[1]
Area ¹	10.23 km² (3.95 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[2]	646
• Density	63/km² (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14207 /14220
Elevation	16–182 m (52–597 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Croisilles (French pronunciation: [kʁwazij] ⁱ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

The mother of explorer Dumont D'Urville was born in Croisilles. He named an inlet of New Zealand's coast Croisilles Harbour after the village.^[3]

Geography

[edit ]

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.^[4]

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Breuil, L'Église, La Vallée and Croisilles.^[5]

The River Orne plus five streams The Traspy, The Aunay Douffieres, The Trois Cours, The Neumer and the Pont de Combray are the main watercourses running through the commune.