The hamlet of Vacqueville
Between the Ormel and Saint Sever is an old isolated hamlet south of the Commune of Vierville, named Vacqueville.
This hamlet of Vacqueville is composed of buildings generally located south of the small road of Vacqueville.
The old building is gathered in the vicinity of an old large farm, called Vacqueville, of which we have some historical data. It is directly established along the track (gable or perimeter walls) with a NO/SE orientation.
A recent house in the hamlet (1970s) is located at the bottom of a courtyard.
Several notable elements were indicated in the PLU investigation file, including:
4 old wells, 3 of which are covered wells
Several remarkable hedges, spotted H14, H15, H18.
yews, boxwoods, the source of Fumichon, an old reuse stone
Vacqueville on the cadastre of 1823
The hamlet of Vacqueville April 2007
Here is what the historical notes on the Bessin said about it around 1930:
"A short distance from the fields of L'Ormel are the grasses where undoubtedly from the time of the Romans cows were fed, which gave this place the name of Vacqueville (villa, exploitation; vaccarum, cows).
"Captain Jean-Louis Canivet de Vacqueville and his brother Isaac-François Canivet sold their farm in Vacqueville, on August 7, 1755, to Jean-Nicolas de Pleurre
Jean-Nicolas de Pleurre's daughter, Marie-Thérèse de Pleurre, inherited it and brought it to her husband the castellan of Vierville, Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye, who also owned Lormel and the Vaumicel.
After the death of Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye in 1802, a division of September 18, 1805, assigned Vacqueville and Lormel to his granddaughters, the ladies Achard de Vacognes and Couliboeuf de Blocqueville, while the Vaumisset and the Château de Vierville were attributed to his grandson, orphan of his son guillotined under the Revolution.
Madame Couliboeuf de Blocqueville, in agreement with her sister, became sole owner with her husband Louis-Lubin Couliboeuf, Marquis de Blocqueville, squadron leader at the third hunters, in Epinal, knight of the Legion of Honor,
On December 12, 1837, they sold the land and farm of Vacqueville, "consisting of a dwelling house and farm buildings, courtyard, garden, grasslands, meadows and plowing planted and unplanted, containing 35 hectares 18 ares 10 centiares, landlocked, except the Teurterets and the front grasslands, between the path from Vierville to Trévières, that of the church of Louvières in Vierville and the road to the village of Vacqueville".
The buyers were Jean-Louis-Laurent Ygouf, Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor, and his wife, Mrs. Victoire-Louise Vimard
"The purchasers were Mr. Jean-Louis-Laurent Ygouf, former infantry warrant officer, Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor, and his wife, Mrs. Victoire-Louise Vimard. The price was sixty-two thousand francs including 3,000 payable within eight days, 1,000 francs in 1 month, 1,000 francs in two months, 3,000 francs in four months, 10,000 francs in six months, 4,000 francs on September 29, 1838; forty thousand francs would remain to be paid in twelve years, or 2,500 at Christmas 1839, and so on from year to year; finally 12,500 francs at Christmas 1850 (without interest the first year and 4% for the following 12 years. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Ygouf undertook to serve and amortize, before 1862, eight annuities in place of Mr. and Mrs. de Blocqueville, annuities whose total was equal to the annuities owed by Mr. de Hautefeuille, their co-heir. "
The Vacqueville estate is currently a farm, accompanied by guest rooms and a rural cottage, owned by the Hérouville family
Vacqueville on the cadastre of 1823
(details) the Vacqueville farm today, farm, guest rooms and cottage, which belongs to the Hérouville family
The cottage
Strike on the road to Vacqueville
(PLU file)
Starting from the South West
1 - Set built in length whose gable annex adjoins the track. this small set marks like a door to the hamlet with a space in the foreground, treated in meadow, which allows the whole to breathe
2 - house whose pinion is aligned with the track with a pretty little park and a gravel-treated access path
3 - the recent house of the hamlet, from this point of view, it seems relatively well integrated with the trees in the foreground although its coating is too light.
Further on, we discover the house from another angle: located at the bottom of a courtyard in need of planting.
5 - Overview on the farmhouse: a staggering of roofs that could be happy, but spoiled by cement-colored materials and the overhead network.
6 - Successful staging of the entrance of the farmhouse mixing stones and plants
7 - A small house, always with a gable on the street... very vegetable, as if buried in the landscape of the small road.
8 - View of the back of the farmhouse not very well integrated with poy vegetation and too grayish colors
The 4 ancient wells of Vacqueville
(details) Covered well in the garden of a small house in Vacqueville, next to a remarkable yew
(details) another covered well in Vacqueville, next to the house occupied before the war by Robert Boulard, one of the resistance fighters who died for France in 1944. During a restoration of his well before the war, he had printed his children's hand in fresh cement plaster. These marks are always visible
Haie H14 - The long RD194 from Formigny to Louvières - Border OB 145 and 146 - 330 m
Wooded Set No. H14 (classified in POS 1995):
Location: near the Hameau de Vacqueville, along the road to Louvières, on the edge of parcels No. OB145 and 146, in agricultural space
Size and general condition: about 330 m of hedges in very good condition, almost double in width, with varied strata and species
Variety of species and vegetation strata: ash, oak, hazelnut, sycomore maple, hawthorn, elberry, hornberel, honeysuckle, honeysuckle
Perception of wood in its environment: participates in the density of the bocager network
Role in water protection: none
Ecological role: important ecological interest due to its width and proximity to forests (ecological corridor)
This wooded area deserves a classification for its landscape role and ecological interest
Proposal to maintain the ranking
H14 - Ranking maintenance - Border OB 145 and 146 - 330 m
Hedge 14, double, along the road leading to Louvières, near Vacqueville
Haie H15 - Parallel to the road from Formigny to Louvières and close to NE RD194 - Between OB99 and 101-140 m
Wooded Set No. H15 (classified in the POS 1995):
Location: close to the Hameau de Vacqueville, and close to the road leading to Louvières between parcels OB99 and 101, in agricultural space
Size and general condition: about 140 linear meters of hedges in good condition and with various species
Variety of species and vegetation strata: All strata are represented. Oak, ash, chestnut, sycomore maple for the wooded stratum; plum tree, hawthorn, willow, rasewood, elm for the shrub stratum
Perception of wood in its environment: participates in the density of the bocager mesh
Role in water protection: none
Ecological role: important ecological interest thanks to its width and proximity to forests (ecological corridor)
This wooded space deserves a classification because of its landscape role and ecological interest
Proposal to maintain the ranking
H15 - Ranking maintenance - Between OB99 and 101 - 140 m
A remarkable wooded hedge classified in Vacqueville
Hedge H18 - The long VC n°6 of Vacqueville - Border OB57 - 150 m
Wooded set n°H18 not classified in 1995
Location: Hamlet of Vacqueville, along municipal road No. 6 called Vacqueville, on the edge of plot No. OB57, in a half-agricultural, half-urbanized area
Size and general condition: about 150 linear meters of hedges in good condition and with varied species, which has certainly been replanted for the most part (the trees having been preserved: sycomores maples)
Variety of species and vegetation strata: sycomore maple, cherry, dogwood, hawthorn, field maple, plum tree, beech (in charmille)
Perception of wood in its environment: participates in the bucolic setting of the hamlet of
Vacqueville
Role in water protection: none
Ecological role: important ecological interest thanks to the proximity of other hedges
This wooded area deserves a classification because of its landscape role and its ecological interest.
Ranking proposal
H18 - To be classified Border OB57 - 150 m
In the garden of a small house in Vacqueville, next toa remarkable yew a small yew hedge
