Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien corps de garde
Les Veys, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Corps de garde (ancien) (cad. B 47) : inscription par arrêté du 14 septembre 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/09/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- corps de garde
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Grève
- Commune
- Les Veys
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.32942, -1.13471
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110676
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "A new and correct draught of the CHANNELL between ENGLAND and FRANCE" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce corps de garde constitue un témoignage de la défense des côtes du Cotentin sous l'Ancien Régime.
English translation
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History
This guardhouse constitutes evidence of the defence of the Cotentin coast under the Old Regime.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.