Asnières-en-Bessin (French pronunciation: [ɑnjɛʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃] ; literally "Asnières in Bessin") is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

Asnières-en-Bessin is located some 17 km west by north-west of Bayeux, 3 km west of Vierville-sur-Mer, and 4 km north by north-east of Longueville. Access to the commune is by the D194 road from Louvières in the east passing through the north of the commune and the village and continuing west to Cricqueville-en-Bessin. The D198 road goes south from the village through the length of the commune and continues to Aignerville. There is the hamlet of Le Temple just south of the village and Montigny in the south of the commune. The commune is entirely farmland.

The Veret river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west and continues west then north-west to the sea at the Pont du Hable.

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List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1983	2008	Paulette Cuillandre
2008	2026	Patrick Deshayes		Farmer

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnièrois or Asnièroises in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 278 —     1800 219 −3.35% 1806 227 +0.60% 1821 219 −0.24% 1831 244 +1.09% 1836 249 +0.41% 1841 219 −2.53% 1846 201 −1.70% 1851 201 +0.00% 1856 185 −1.65% 1861 191 +0.64% 1866 186 −0.53% 1872 166 −1.88% 1876 147 −2.99% 1881 141 −0.83% 1886 165 +3.19% 1891 141 −3.09% 1896 148 +0.97%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 123 −3.63% 1906 121 −0.33% 1911 139 +2.81% 1921 132 −0.52% 1926 124 −1.24% 1931 110 −2.37% 1936 121 +1.92% 1946 107 −1.22% 1954 101 −0.72% 1962 106 +0.61% 1968 91 −2.51% 1975 91 +0.00% 1982 74 −2.91% 1990 61 −2.39% 1999 55 −1.14% 2007 62 +1.51% 2012 58 −1.32% 2017 65 +2.31%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

• Château of Asnières-en-Bessin, built in 1693, rebuilt in 1783.

• Arthur Le Duc (1848-1918), sculptor, was the Mayor of the commune from 1893 to his death in 1918.
• Albert Anne (1908-1944), a member of the resistance in the Alliance network, (A resistance network in the interior of France during the Second World War) he was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 May 1944 at Asnières-en-Bessin, where he had used his skills as a forger, and he was executed at Caen jail on 6 June 1944.

• Communes of the Calvados department

• Asnières-en-Bessin on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Asnieres on the 1750 Cassini Map