Escoville

Escoville
Commune
Saint-Laurent
Coat of arms
Location of Escoville
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Coordinates: 49°12′40″N0°14′13″W / 49.2111°N 0.2369°W / 49.2111; -0.2369
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Troarn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christophe Cliquet [1]
Area 1	5.18 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [2]	805
• Density	160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14246 /14850
Elevation	13–42 m (43–138 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Escoville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France, with a population of 803 people as of 2017. ^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	321	—
1968	417	+29.9%
1975	460	+10.3%
1982	438	−4.8%
1990	623	+42.2%
1999	626	+0.5%
2008	726	+16.0%

Geography

Escoville is located 5 kilometers north of Troarn, 11 kilometers northeast of Caen, 14 kilometers south of Cabourg, and 35 kilometers from Deauville. Escoville is part of the urban area of Caen.

Toponymy

The name of the locality is attested in the form Scotvilla in 1101 (note AG according to the Red Cartulary of Troarn) ; Escoldivilla in 1109 (Dictionnaire topographique, according to the cartulary of Troarn) ; Scolvilla in 1156 - 1161 (act H 2, 169); Escotvilla in 1201 (AC,H 941) ; Ecovilla in 1128 (charter of Sainte-Barbe) ; Escovilla in 1208 (Charter of the abbey of Aunay). ^{[4] [5]}

Albert Dauzat and, following him, Ernest Nègre consider that the first element Escold- represents the Germanic personal name Ascald(us), ^[6] variant form Ascolt, ^[7] while there is no ancient form in As-. Furthermore, they did not know the first form Scotvilla, which is entirely compatible with the evolutions Escotvilla > Ecovilla (type scola > escole > école), but not really with *Ascaldvilla > Escoldivilla or *Ascoltvilla > Escoldivilla, we should end up in *Escauville in one case and *Escouville in the other. This is why François de Beaurepaire identifies the ethnic scot as "Scottish" (Scot as "the Scotsman" cf. surname Lescot, modern French l'Écossais). ^[5]

Homonymy with Escoville (Seine-Maritime, Saint-Laurent-de-Brèvedent, Escoville par. de Saint-Laurent d’Esquetot, 1558). The name (E)scoville has evolved into the English last names Scoville (Anglo-Norman form), Scovill, Scoffield, Schofield, and Scourfield.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Population municipale 2017.
4. Topographical dictionary of the department of Calvados, p. 106.
5. François de Beaurepaire préface Michel Tamine), Les noms de lieux du Calvados (annotated by Dominique Fournier), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2022, p. 172
6. Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Personal names in the territory of ancient Gaul, I, 42b.
7. Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Paris, Librairie Guénégaud 1979 (réédition), p. 270b

External links

• Official site