The is one of the large forests of the Pays of Bray, in Normandy. It extends on a surface from: 6550 hectares between the communes of Saint-Saëns and Arch-the-Battles to a score of kilometers in south-east of Dieppe and not far from Neufchâtel-in-Bray. The village of the Great Sales is installed in its center.

Natural environment

The forest occupies a broad croup which separates the Varenne in south-west from the Béthune in the North-East, small plate of Craie, of an altitude ranging between 130 and 230 meters, falling down by a convex slope on the Varenne. Although the forest is crossed by no River, the clay-with-flints which recovers the Craie maintains a rather great moisture; Eawy (delivery e-a-vi) originates in a meaning term Gallic wet. Often rectilinear, it offers prospects through the grove large Hêtre S whose barrels often exceed 20 meters.

History, exploitation

The forest of Eawy is a vestige of the large forests covering the area before the An millet and victims of the great clearings. Possession of the dukes of Normandy, it was largely seriously damaged at the time of the Guerre One hundred year old. During the Second world war, the forest sheltered under its covers, with the Valley-Ygot, of the launching pads of V1 of the German army. The damage caused by the installation of these military infrastructures and by the allied bombardments having for objective to destroy them was repaired by the Germans after the conflict; the devastated zones were retimbered with Conifère S.

Today, the forest of Eawy is a place of family walks as much, with foot or bicycle that of forestry development and Chasse. The forest is, indeed, particularly giboyeuse, one finds there stag S, Sanglier S of big number, more rarely of the Chevreuil S.

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