Creully

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Part of Creully sur Seulles in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Creully

49°17′04″N 0°32′22″W / 49.2844°N 0.5394°W / 49.2844; -0.5394CountryFranceRegionNormandyDepartmentCalvadosArrondissementCaenCantonThue et MueCommuneCreully sur SeullesArea

8.56 km² (3.31 sq mi)Population

(2018)^[1]

1,586 • Density190/km² (480/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

14480

Elevation7–61 m (23–200 ft)
(avg. 40 m or 130 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Creully (French pronunciation: [kʁøli] ^ⓘ) 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 Creully sur Seulles.^[2]

The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).^[3] Lt. McCormick was the only Allied soldier to reach his D-Day objective when on 6 June 1944, after the tank he commanded passed through Creully, it reached the Caen-Bayeux road.^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	692	—
1968	817	+18.1%
1975	692	−15.3%
1982	1,003	+44.9%
1990	1,396	+39.2%
1999	1,426	+2.1%
2008	1,569	+10.0%

References

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^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 8 September 2016 (in French)
^ Outhit, Jeff (8 June 2011). "Liberator then, hero still". Record (Kitchener, ON). Retrieved 17 January 2021.
^ Belanger, Joe (8 June 2011). "Vet Wants to See Juno Beach Once More". Retrieved 17 January 2021.