Maisons, Calvados

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 (French pronunciation: [syli] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Tour-en-Bessin Airfield is a now-abandoned World War II military airfield near the commune of Tour-en-Bessin in the Normandy region of northern France. The United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield on 12 July 1944, shortly after the Allied landings in France. It was constructed by the IX Engineering Command, 833rd and 846th Engineer Aviation Battalions.

Commes (French pronunciation: [kɔm] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃ ypɛ̃] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The commune contains the two towns of Port-en-Bessin and Huppain.

Vaucelles (French pronunciation: [vosɛl] ) is a commune located to the west of Bayeux in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Cussy (French pronunciation: [kysi] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Tour-en-Bessin (French pronunciation: [tuʁ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃] , literally Tour in Bessin) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Barbeville (French pronunciation: [baʁbəvil] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

The Jardin botanique de Bayeux (2.6 hectares), also called the Jardin public de Bayeux, is a botanical garden and municipal park located at 53, route de Port-en-Bessin, Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France. It is open daily without charge. The garden site was formerly a meadow, bequeathed in 1851 by Charlemagne Jean-Delamare (1772–1858) as a garden for teaching horticulture, landscaped by Eugène Bühler (1822–1907), and in 1864 opened to the public. Many specimens planted from 1859 to 1864 remain. The most notable among its roughly 400 mature trees is a weeping European Beech that in 1932 was named a natural monument and in 2000 a remarkable tree of France.

Étréham (French pronunciation: [etʁeɑ̃]) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Vaux-sur-Aure (French pronunciation: [vo syʁ oʁ] , literally Vaux on Aure) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The Barons de Gratot (Argouges) resided at the Château de Gratot in Vaux-sur-Aure. According to the French Wikipedia a legend is that a Lord of Argouges met a Fairy woman who agreed to be his wife provided he never spoke the word "Mort" [death] which was considered profane language; however he spoke it and the Fairy vanished; this legend is associated with both Château de Gratot and the Château de Argouges at Argouges.