Hardinvast

Hardinvast is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.

There exist several assumptions as for the etymology of the name of the commune. Its name could come from the anglo-Scandinavian Harding , who means " that which is fort". Hardinvast thus means " Ground of those which are forts". However, this etymology is debatable and " the etymological dictionary of the names of communes of Normandie" of Rene Lepelley published in 1993 known as that Hardinvast means " arid ground of Hardinc" , of Latin vastus (former French gast, dialectal form vast) ground which uncultivated or arid, is preceded by the name of anybody Germanic or Anglo-Saxon Hardinc. It is possible that to the high Middle Ages this description corresponded rather well to a space then little populated.

Geography

History

An old parish close to that of Tollevast, but here no trace of the church of the Middle Ages, only some remainders of a necropolis mérovingienne has one day discovered on the heights of the North of the commune and testifies to a thousand-year-old occupation. It is little when one knows the beauty of the Romance churches of so close Tollevast and Martinvast, of the communities depending on the abbey of the Wishes of Cherbourg. The church of the commune, restored it there has little, was built as from the XVIIIème century. The bell-tower dates from the beginning of the XIXème century. In front of the gate of the church, a strange palm tree shelters fall it from Emmanuel Liais, former mayor of Cherbourg at the XIXème century and owner in the commune.

Administration

Hardinvast belongs to the Communauté of communes of Ditch and Divette made up of eight other communes:

Demography

The population of Hardinvast underwent since the beginning of the XIXème century the rural migration which emptied the campaigns with the profit of the close cities (Cherbourg is industrialized, its wearing of war is then in construction and calls the labor) or more remote, the train arrives in the area under the second empire and opens Cotentin on the Paris region. It is far time when it took 3 good days to go from Versailles to Cherbourg (1786 official trip of Louis XVI, come to inaugurate the large building site of the time, the construction of the dams…) After one century of rural migration, the common one lost half of its population, passing from 650 inhabitants in 1830 with less than 350 in 1930. It is paradoxically in these difficult years for French demography that the communal population takes again a growth which continues until today. In 1982, the manpower of 1830 is found. The proximity of the agglomeration cherbourgeoise makes community of communes of Ditch and Divette an perish-urban zone with strong but controlled enough population growth.

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Emmanuel Liais is buried in the cemetery of the commune.

See too

Common of the English Channel

External bonds

nonofficial Site of the commune
Hardinvast on the site of the national geographical Institute
Hardinvast on the site of INSEE
Hardinvast on the site of Quid
Localization of Hardinvast on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Hardinvast on Mapquest

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