Creully

Creully
Part of Creully sur Seulles
Coat of arms
Location of Creully
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Coordinates: 49°17′04″N 0°32′22″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Thue et Mue
Commune	Creully sur Seulles
Area ^1	8.56 km^2 (3.31 sq mi)
Population  (2018)[1]	1,586
• Density	190/km^2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	14480
Elevation	7–61 m (23–200 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (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%

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department
• Château de Creully

References

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