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Bauquay
Bauquay
Part of Les Monts d'Aunay
	The Church of Sasint-Mathieu
	Location of Bauquay
	Bauquay Location within France Bauquay Location within Normandy
	Coordinates: 49°02′04″N 0°36′53″W / 49.0344°N 0.6147°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Vire
Canton	Les Monts d'Aunay
Commune	Les Monts d'Aunay
Area 1	1.79 km2 (0.69 sq mi)
Population (2022)	287
• Density	160/km2 (415/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	14260
Elevation	100–163 m (328–535 ft) ; (avg. 130 m or 430 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bauquay (French pronunciation: [bokɛ] ^ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.^[2] On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Monts d'Aunay.^[3]

Geography

Bauquay is located some 6 km south by south-east of Villers-Bocage just north-west of Aunay-sur-Odon. Access to the commune is by the D8 road from Aunay-sur-Odon which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues north-east to Évrecy. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Vloquier and Les Perquettes. The commune is entirely farmland.^[4]^[5]

The Odon river forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows north to eventually join the Orne at Caen. The Douvette river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north then north-west to join the Odon near Longvillers.^[4]^[5]

Geologically the commune is part of the Armorican Massif.

The climate is oceanic as in all of western France. The nearest weather station is Caen, 21 km 3.

Toponymy

The name of the locality was attested as Balcheium in 1082^[6] The toponym comes from the Gallic balc, meaning "clay", which gave the old French bauche with the same meaning. The place used to supply clay for construction.^[7]

Bauquay appears as Beaugnay on the 1750 Cassini Map^[8] and the same on the 1790 version.^[9]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[10]

From	To	Name
1995	2017^[11]	Gilles Leconte

The Municipal Council was composed of 11 members including the Mayor and 2 deputies.^[12]

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Buxois or Buxoises in French.^[13]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	100	—
1800	335	+18.85%
1806	422	+3.92%
1821	334	−1.55%
1831	334	+0.00%
1836	332	−0.12%
1841	307	−1.55%
1846	289	−1.20%
1851	294	+0.34%
1856	276	−1.26%
1861	270	−0.44%
1866	227	−3.41%
1872	207	−1.53%
1876	187	−2.51%
1881	190	+0.32%
1886	190	+0.00%
1891	187	−0.32%
1896	170	−1.89%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	147	−2.87%
1906	158	+1.45%
1911	138	−2.67%
1921	129	−0.67%
1926	132	+0.46%
1931	123	−1.40%
1936	119	−0.66%
1946	118	−0.08%
1954	155	+3.47%
1962	148	−0.58%
1968	132	−1.89%
1975	120	−1.35%
1982	149	+3.14%
1990	151	+0.17%
1999	165	+0.99%
2007	216	+3.42%
2012	296	+6.50%
2022	287	−0.31%

Source: EHESS^[14] and INSEE^[15]^[1]

Sites and monuments

The Church of Saint-Mathieu (12th century) with an 18th-century bell tower.
An Oratory chapel (19th century)

Notable people linked to the commune

Renaud Allirand, painter and engraver, lived in the commune from 1974 to 1987.

References

1 2 "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
↑ Commune déléguée de Bauquay, INSEE
↑ Arrêté préfectoral 26 September 2016 (in French)
1 2 3 Bauquay on Google Maps
1 2 Bauquay on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
↑ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
↑ René Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996, BnF 36174448w p. 59 (in French)
↑ Beaugnay on the 1750 Cassini Map
↑ Beaugnay on the 1790 Cassini Map
↑ List of Mayors of France (in French)
↑ Reelection 2014: Bauquay (14260) - Municipal Elections 2014 Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, Ouest-France, consulted on 1 May 2014 (in French)
↑ art L. 2121-2 of the General Code of Collective Territories (in French).
↑ Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)
↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bauquay, EHESS (in French).
↑ Populations légales 2012, INSEE

[pop2022-1] 1 2 "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.

[2] Commune déléguée de Bauquay, INSEE

[3] Arrêté préfectoral 26 September 2016 (in French)

[Google-4] 1 2 3 Bauquay on Google Maps

[Geo-5] 1 2 Bauquay on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)

[Dauzat-6] Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)

[7] René Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996, BnF 36174448w p. 59 (in French)

[Cassini1750-8] Beaugnay on the 1750 Cassini Map

[Cassini1790-9] Beaugnay on the 1790 Cassini Map

[10] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[11] Reelection 2014: Bauquay (14260) - Municipal Elections 2014 Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, Ouest-France, consulted on 1 May 2014 (in French)

[12] rt L. 2121-2 of the General Code of Collective Territories (in French).

[13] Inhabitants of Calvados (in French)

[ehess-14] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bauquay, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-15] Populations légales 2012, INSEE

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