Le Héron (, before 1962: Héron)Décret du 3 avril 1962 portant changement de noms de communes, Journal officiel de la République française n° 0085, 8 April 1962, p. 3677. is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the new commune of Morville-le-Héron.
Geography A small forestry and farming village situated at the confluence of the small Héron river with the Andelle, some east of Rouen at the junction of the D 13, D 46 and the D 62 roads.
Population
Places of interest An eighteenth-century château and its park. The seventeenth-century fortified manorhouse at Malvoisine. Manoir de Malvoisine also appeared in the movie Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!). A nineteenth-century chapel. The remains of the church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Gilles, dating from the twelfth century, burnt down in 1879.
See also Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
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