Saw (river)

Geography

The Saw takes its source with Saint-Victor-the Abbaye in the east of Tôtes. Its narrow valley, which is inserted rather deeply in the plate of the Pays of Caux, is occupied by the Rouen-Dieppe railway. It is thrown, at the end of a sinuous course directed Nord-nord-ouest the other small coastal river following the example of of Seine-Maritime, in the Manche with Pourville-on-Sea, hamlet of Hautot-on-Sea. The flow with the estuary, appears particularly low (1,8 m ³ /s) because of the narrowness of the area catchment (217 km ²) related to the indigence of the tributary network (no notable affluent). Profiting from a fast current, the Saw is very appraisal of the fishermen, but also of the followers of the Canoe-kayak.

The Saw sprinkles Auffay, Saint-Maclou-with-Folleville, Longueville-on-Saw, Anneville-sur-Scie, Heugleville-on-Saw, Saint-Aubin-on-Saw, Hautot-on-Sea.

The valley of the Saw

The valley of the Saw is located at the variation of the most attended routes; the coastal river sprinkles only small towns whose inheritance carries however the testimony of the rich person history of the area and its famous men. Thus, close to the sources of the Saw, with Saint-Victor-the Abbey, the memory of William the Conqueror is found in the ruins of a monastery of Bénédictins built in 1051 by a rich person lord of Mortemer. Not far from there, a tower of bricks, high at the 15th century by the lord of the place, Louis de Giffard, dominates old a Prieuré set up at the 12th century and transformed into farm having belonged to the family of Gustave Flaubert which made meet Charles Bovary there and, his future wife, Emma. The shade of Bertrand of Guesclin planes above the vestiges of powerful the feudal castle of Longueville-on-Saw, built, at the 11th century, by Gauthier Giffard, carries gonfanon of William the Conqueror to ((battles of Hastings]], that of Guy of Maupassant reign as a Master with the castle of Miromesnil located in the commune of Tourville-on-Arch but dominating the valley of the Saw.

Many a mill S (43 are listed in 1870 by the service of the Ponts and Chaussées) occupied the course of the river; built as of the the Middle Ages, they were used for the crushing of various types of cereals, but also for the manufacture of the tan (reduced barks of powder oak being used for the tanning of the skins). Two of them, transformed into places of animation, of which one still actuates a Minoterie, are still present at Saint-Maclou-with-Folleville (mill of the Crossbow) and with Auffay. Today, the activity of the valley is turned towards the production of Pomme S and the manufacture of the Cidre, illustrated by the presence of the cider-house of the Duché of Longueville to Anneville-sur-Scie.

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