Name: Château de Houesville, known as "Château du Vivier"
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Château de Houesville, known as "Château du Vivier"

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Château de Houesville, known as "Château du Vivier"

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Location: Carentan-Les-Marais, Saint-Lô, Manche, France

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1. Canal de Carentan – Château des Ravalet loop from Valognes

155km

09:22

830m

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2. Canal de Carentan – Sainte-Mère-l'Église loop from Audouville-la-Hubert

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02:57

160m

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3. Sainte-Mère-l'Église – Canal de Carentan loop from Saint-Côme-du-Mont

57.4km

03:28

170m

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July 20, 2020

Historic 18th century manor, still an active upscale residence of a horse breeding family, surrounded by horse paddocks and even remnants of a water-filled decorative moat.

The Château de Houesville, known as the “Château duVivier”, is a property built by the family of the owner's mother, Jean-Yves Lécuyer, Madame Lécuyer née Frigoult de Liesville. The Haras du Vivier is a horse breeding center created by Jean-Yves, one of the largest trotting farms in France. The estate covers more than 500 hectares, 400 of which are owned around the castle, with around ten employees, around 150 trotters and hundreds of cattle and sheep. The stud farm itself produces the hay, oats, corn and barley that it needs for feeding its animals. wikimanche.fr/Haras_du_Vivier

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Willem VS

March 16, 2023

During the religious wars which desolated the country in the course of the 16th century, the lords of Houesville and Cosqueville were massacred by the Protestants. In 1599, we find noble in Houesville, Charles Varroc, sieur de Houesville. In the course of the 17th century, one of the members of the Varroc family was Lord of Houesville. This family bore gules six roses argent. In the middle of the 18th century, Pierre Claude de Varroc, knight, lord of Houesville, sold to Thomas Alexandre "a tenement called the Vivier farm, consisting of manable house, cellar, barn, chartery, stable, bakery, courtyard, two gardens and a circuit of land at the end of the larger of the two gardens". When René Nicolas Frigoult married Jacqueline Le Perchois in 1763, the Vivier estate passed into the Frigoult de Liesville family. The central body of the house, of regular plan with a square floor, with two recessed wings, was built in the 18th century; alterations and addition of pavilions carried out in the 19th century.

chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu/chateaux-manche-chateau-a-houesville-chateau-du-vivier.html

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Location: Carentan-Les-Marais, Saint-Lô, Manche, France

Château de Houesville, known as "Château du Vivier"

1. Canal de Carentan – Château des Ravalet loop from Valognes

2. Canal de Carentan – Sainte-Mère-l'Église loop from Audouville-la-Hubert

3. Sainte-Mère-l'Église – Canal de Carentan loop from Saint-Côme-du-Mont

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