Le Plessis-Grimoult

Le Plessis-Grimoult
Abbey ruins
Location of Le Plessis-Grimoult
Le Plessis-Grimoult
Le Plessis-Grimoult
Coordinates: 48°57′43″N 0°36′30″W / 48.9619°N 0.6083°W / 48.9619; -0.6083
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementVire
CantonCondé-en-Normandie
CommuneLes Monts d'Aunay
Area
1
16.15 km2 (6.24 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
313
 • Density19.4/km2 (50.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
14770
Elevation200–361 m (656–1,184 ft)
(avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Plessis-Grimoult (French pronunciation: [lə plɛsi ɡʁimu] ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Monts d'Aunay.[2]

On 23 June 2009, a monument was unveiled in memory of Aleksander Chudek, a Polish pilot from No. 303 RAF Squadron, who died at Le Plessis-Grimoult in 1944.[3]

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References

  1. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
  2. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 26 September 2016 (in French)
  3. ^ Ambasada RP w Paryżu. "Uroczystość odsłonięcia pomnika poświęconego chorążemu Aleksandrowi Chudkowi" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2010-06-26. Retrieved 11 September 2009.