Saâne

The Saâne is small a coastal Fleuve Norman, 41 kilometers length, whose course is located in the department of Seine-Maritime.

Etymology

The name of Saâne, Sedana in 853, is based on a preceltic hydronymic root * set “which one finds in the Siède , affluent of the Weser in Germany and in the Sid , river of the Devonshire in England. ”

Geography

Saâne takes its source in the Pays of Caux, on the territory of the old commune of Varvannes, amalgamated today in the whole of villages of the Valley-with-Saâne. After a course directed in north, in an increasingly boxed valley, it leads to the Côte of Alabaster, being thrown in the Manche between Quiberville and Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer in the west of Varengeville-on-Sea. The flow with Longueil, not far from the mouth, proves relatively low (2,6 m ³ /s) because of the reduced surface of the catchment area (270 km ²). However with Gueures, the small river receives, out of Right Bank, the contribution of a notable, the Vienna, long affluent 15 kilometers.

Saâne sprinkles Saâne-Saint-Just, Auzouville-on-Saâne, Biville-the-River, Brachy, Gueures, Ouville-the-River, Longueil, Quiberville.

The valley of Saâne

More still than its neighbor the Saw, Saâne drains a valley with the variation of the attended routes, sprinkling quiet villages in which hide, behind a curtain of trees, some beautiful residences like the castle of Imbleville built at the end of the 15th century and which has, with the wire of the times, lost its defensive character of origin, or the Manoir S of Auzouville-on-Saâne and Gourel with Brachy, built, them also at the 15th century, in sandstone. A walk in this laughing valley especially makes it possible to discover many farms cauchoises called closed hovels. These last present the aspect of true timbered small islands, of a surface from approximately 2 to 3 hectares, course of girdled farms of planted slopes of Hêtre S centenaries. Behind these curtains of greenery, are disseminated, on a decorated ground of Pommier S with Cidre and ponds, the dwelling house and farm buildings (sometimes, a dovecote) to the walls of half-timbering.

Although with the variation of the great lanes, the valley of Saâne had, during the 19th century, developed an important agricultural activity and even industrial (manufactures of paper fabric and pulp with Brachy, weaving of fabric with Gueures). Left with the variation of the railroad at the time of the first waves of construction of railways, the valley saw its péricliter activities in the absence of outlets. It was then decided, at the beginning of the 20th century, to establish a small railroad to metric gauge track to bring modernity to the local populations. Inaugurated in 1912

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