La Londe

La Londe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. It was first mentioned in historical records in 1170.

Geography
A forestry and farming village situated some 12 mi southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D132 and the D38 roads. The commune borders the department of the Eure.

Toponymy
Lunda around 1170. There are more than 100 place-names la Londe in Normandy. It means "the wood, the grove". It derives from Old Norse lundr "grove".

Places of interest

 * A memorial to the Canadian soldiers that liberated the town in August 1944.
 * The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.
 * A seventeenth-century château.
 * A stone cross from the sixteenth century.
 * Some Roman ruins.