title: Veauville-lès-Baons
text: # Veauville-lès-Baons
  
  Veauville-lès-Baons is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts-de-Caux.
  
  ## Geography
  
  A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the C5 with the D37 road. The A29 autoroute passes through the commune's borders.
  
  ## Population
  
  Historical population of Veauville-lès-Baons :
  
  | Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Population | 301 | 327 | 528 | 672 | 725 | 717 | 671 |
  | From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. ||||||||
  
  ## Places of interest
  
  * The church of St. Austreberthe, dating from the sixteenth century.
  * The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the fifteenth century.
  * A sixteenth-century stone cross at the crossroads.
  * A 30-foot high granite cross, erected in 1874.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  Claudine Loquen(1965-), painter and sculptor has lived in Veauville-lès-Baons (from 1976 to 2007)
  
  