Drôme (Aure)
The Drôme is a 57.9 km long river in Normandy. Its source is on the border of the Manche and Calvados departments, at le Grand Cauville locality, near Saint-Martin-des-Besaces and joins the Aure, left bank at Maisons, downstream of Bayeux in the Bessin region. It is a sub-affluent of the Vire.
Sully bridge
Watershed
The watershed of the Drôme neighbours those of the Vire, Aure (east), Tortonne (NW) and Seulles (SE).
It is a narrow, northward basin. The longest of its affluents is the ruisseau du Vey (7.3 km), which it joins at Cormolain.
Drôme valley
- Castle (ranked monument historique) and Saint-Martin de Balleroy Church (ranked) at Balleroy,
- Pont de Sully (inscrit) between Castillon and Vaubadon.
- Manoir du Pont-Senot (inscrit) à Noron-la-Poterie.
- Église Notre-Dame de Ranchy (clocher inscrit).
- Château de Barbeville (inscrit).
- Castle (inscrit) and Église Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte (inscrite) at Vaucelles.
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité at Sully (inscrite).
References
- ^ Sandre. "Fiche cours d'eau - La Drome (I45-0420)".
- ^ Les géoservices du Conseil général du Calvados - La carte dynamique |accessdate= 12 August 2010 Archived January 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Couches Cours d'eau BDCarthage, Communes et Communes (Libellé) activées.
- ^ Base Mérimée
